Word: often
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four in a row, grabbed their slim lead early in the second period when Jerry Galle spun off end on a reverse and ran ten yards to score. Except for this lone tally, Leverett's attack begged down despite fine running by Jim Wykoff and Fabian Bradbury, which often kept the Bunnies in Adams territory...
...administration has often been accused of trying to squelch the Undergraduate Council, an ineffectual group to begin with. It insists on censoring Princeton's version of the Confy Guide, and once boycotted all merchants that sold it--although perhaps with good reason: the booklet had written that a certain professor "jumps around on the lecture platform like a man with four cents in front of a five-cent water closet...
Some Colleges, like Stanford or Virginia, are rah-rah and nothing else. Princeton isn't; Nassau men take their studies seriously and work hard on them, probably harder than Harvard students. Freshmen and sophomores carry five courses a term, and every senior (except engineers) must write a thesis-often 60,000 words minimum...
...other serious contender for the mayor's office is Governor's Councilor Patrick J. (Sonny) McDonough. With a history of ward leadership and prominence in the State Democratic party, McDonough conducts a vigorous, personal campaign, often spending whole days shaking hands with everyone he meets on the street; his goal is 85,000 handshakes before election day. Behind him, McDonough has a large block of South Boston votes plus the backing of a number of CIO unions. Though he would like to match the vote that Hynes hopes for, McDonough's unfamiliarity with the voters in large areas...
...backbiters, miscreants, and dullards-who, it must be admitted, look pretty much like you and me without our clothes-a heavy lidded young man stood forth. He groped his way through the foils and foibles of mankind-occasionally being swept along in the mania of the moment, but more often standing back from the Crowd and muttering, "What am I doing here?" Clearly Dean had fallen ill with the dread "mal de siecle"-introspection...