Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...action which will inevitably result from the publication of this criticism, the Columbia professors are doing no good to anyone in making it public. They are, however, doing one great service. They are showing the people of America that scholars are not necessarily metaphysically minded thinkers. The more often college teachers can show themselves to be interested in practical problems the better it will be for the cause of education, and it need be no foregone conclusion that politics would suffer...
...tall timber, where little light comes through, you may run a trail almost anywhere; there is often little to do but blaze the route. But even here there will be an occasional tree that has fallen of old age, and it will be a big one. you must chop or saw through it, perhaps twice, very likely an hour's real work. Out of this forest you may pass into a section where a storm has wreaked navoc. All the big trees are down, and a new forest, head high, is growing up so thick that (as has been said...
...friend, B. C. Forbes, has been in the leadership of this educational movement for so many years that his work is thoroughly well-known, but I often wonder whether he really gets all the credit...
...Paris, for 58,000 francs, a painting, The Statue, by Hubert Robert, the lively 18th Century French painter admired by Voltaire. Fortnight ago I secured at the Michelham sale in London (TIME, Dec. 6) Romney's much coveted portrait of Lady de la Pole, for $220,000. I often buy pictures. Less frequently, I write poetry...
...aquatic habits: plates, instead of scales, on the head, which enable it to shut its nostrils and remain submerged for some time, like moose, whales, beavers; and bearing its young alive (viviparous) instead of laying eggs (oviparous). Like its cousins it is at home in trees, but more often it lies submerged in a water-hole, with only the eyes above water. It strikes dead with a hammering head blow or seizes its prey in its jaws: secures the carcass in a coil of its body; constricts, crushing the carcass to a pulp; swallows the morsel