Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief of the Red Book, a salutary change proposed this year in the conduct of Freshman affairs will go into effect. Until now, the selection of the editors has been delayed until after the election of class officers in March, with a resultant haste in publication which has often proved damaging...
...tell you: it was foreign missionaries and merchants. They have broken much land, and often those in charge of such little kingdoms are only two or three foreign women...
...cautious scholars who have no imagination have been troubled by the statement in II Samuel 21:19 where the killing of "Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam" is ascribed to one Elhanan. To smooth over the discrepancy, the passage is often made to read "the brother of Goliath the Gittite...
There are only three U. S. manufacturers of locomotives. They are American Locomotive Co., Baldwin Locomotive Works and Lima Locomotive Works, Inc. The Lima company is so much smaller than the other two that the locomotive industry is often thought of in terms only of American Locomotive and Baldwin. All three companies are running at far below capacity (the Lima plant, indeed, shut down temporarily during the latter part...
...were tracing with blood and gore elaborate patterns of Napoleonic strategy, Grant defied all the rules, applied common sense, accomplished feats that Napoleon would proudly have claimed. All this can be gleaned from Woodward's interesting if arbitrary and cavalier account, but his great general is only too often submerged in the man, shiftless, gullible, pathetic...