Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flopping, broad-brimmed, black hat and grip his hand magnificently; they heard two unimportant-looking old gentlemen discussing something terrifically important. "Why all this ho-kum?" they asked one another, laying down their shovels. Alert citizens would have told them that Congress reconvenes on Dec. 6 and that lawmakers often arrive early...
...Europe for its gushing fountains of seething water, for its stupendous streams of lava, for its vast volume of milk-white torrents plunging over grim and swarthy rocks, for the varied, weird and fantastic forms of its mountains, for the intense green of its meads and lowlands, and often of its climbing slopes, for the luminous tints of its peaks, for the splendor of its heavens and for the gray, overawing desolation poured out by its volcanoes...
...injury takes place while the ball is in play, the officials are to withhold their whistle until the play is completed. The purpose of this change is to prevent the officials from killing a play because of an apparent injury which often has no effect upon the play itself...
...orators will make a special effort to amuse as well as to convince their audience. In the past Harvard debating has occasionally been convincing but often extremely dull and uninteresting. This year, however, the debates will be made especially interesting to the audience...
...days before the opening game, intensive training is entered into at once, and is carried on at an exhausting pace throughout the season. An earlier training date would obviate the need for hurry, render the training less intensive, and result in better physical condition of the players, who are often worn out by the hard training of the season...