Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the revolution in 1911, oldtimers told me, the profession fell upon evil days and two handed chopping such as you describe took the place of the neat, single-handed slicing with the result that often two and three blows were needed to complete the matter...
Minister Euler in the prow of the rumrunner with the U. S. Customs House ahead: "Do you often cross in the daytime as well as at night...
...this development Harvard has necessarily played a large part. From the beginning the project had the warm support of President Eliot and the Harvard faculty without which it could scarcely have become firmly established. It was Harvard professors who gave their services, often at considerable sacrifice, to the construction and improvement of the newer institution. And finally it was under the regime of Dean Briggs as Radcliffe's president that the enormous physical expansion of the first two decades of this country took place. The Harvard influence throughout has guided and moulded Radcliffe into what it is today, an institution...
Many members of the class have never even seen the candidates and often see them for the first time on Class Day. The poems of winners are printed in the Senior Album and are read at the Class Day exercises. Why should future classes continue to elect blindly when better talent, perhaps not so well known is in the class...
...needed, the committee is opposed to a system of guidance by a faculty committee, functioning through a secretary. Such a system would first of all impose an enormous burden on the members of the committee, since guidance, to be more than mere information-giving, must involve incessant and often apparently useless interviews. Faculty members giving such guidance would be obliged to drop nearly all their academic work. If the members of the committee were not active, the work would presumably be done by the secretary. Insofar as the secretary were permanent, accessible, and capable he would fill the qualifications mentioned...