Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME'S best boosters in South America I have often shown your magazine to my Uruguayan friends as the outstanding information publication of my country. Consequently, after boasting proudly of TIME'S accuracy in reporting even minor events of interest, I was quite astonished to read in my copy of Dec. 3, just received, on page 7 under "Chief Yeoman," that Mr. Hoover's complete itinerary included Montevideo (URAGUAY...
...years later Stump City was named Gloversville, because of the gloves that the Littauers, father and son, made there. Now Son Littauer, resembling "Old Paul'' von Hindenburg in a quiet way, is retired and lives in Manhattan or at Premium Point, New Rochelle, N. Y. He often goes back to Gloversville, where everybody knows him and likes to say hello...
...Every so often all who seek to peer into the English heart must scan the famed "Agony Column" (Want Ads) of the London Times. Last week in a single issue, on a single page, occurred the following revealing and significant ads, each smacking inimitably of Old England...
...inestimable value, particularly in breast cancer. The burden of caring for the sick and aged falls chiefly upon women, and for this reason they should know that cancer is not contagious, and that many of the common beliefs regarding its cause and treatment are untrue. Because they are so often the guardians of the family's health, the Society feels it is particularly important that they should realize that prompt treatment from a reliable physician is the only course to follow when a cancer is suspected and discovered...
...shirt, cutaway coat, silk hat, and cigar stub, Papa Nebo, an hermaphrodite, wrought mysteries with corpses, pronounced the oracle of the dead. Other corpses, zombies, worked in the cane fields, strictly supervised. To a white they seemed rather like gaunt imbeciles with their keeper. But how was it that often blacks had seen their relatives buried, only to find them weeks later in servitude as zombies? In the criminal code Author Seabrook found the weird explanation. Such are the African intimacies that share popularity with Roman Catholicism -even to orgiastic massacres of Judas and Pontius Pilate in effigy. Author Seabrook...