Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abrams reported that he often started talking in the afternoon and kept right on through the night until 3 or 4 or even 6 a.m. When either he or the crowd was exhausted, the gathering would break up, and almost every time his Russian listeners would contest for the right to pay his taxi fare back to his hotel. He tried not to let them pay, but on two occasions they succeeded in reaching the driver before he could stop them. "We made you stay so late, we want to thank you by paying your fare," they would tell...
According to Frank O. Lunden, Department of Athletics Ticket Manager, the new system is designed to prevent difficulties that arose last year. Students who failed to pick up their football tickets and athletic cards on the proper day were often unable to get their cards back in time to apply for tickets to the next game...
...though, as coach Bruce Munro says, "you can never tell about sophomores until you see them in a game," the squad looks to its recruits from last year's strong and successful freshman team to bolster the attack that was so often found wanting last season...
...fellow club members whose foibles-and achievements-may be whispered about in a corner of the library but are not to be bruited about in public print. From its window seat in the clubhouse, TIME sees newspapers and newsmen, as well as other magazines, as legitimate, significant and often fascinating subjects for discussion and criticism. Because no other general U.S. publication talks so regularly and so candidly about the press in action, TIME's Press section is must reading for most newsmen, and an intriguing source of information for the millions who read newspapers and magazines. For a story...
...imposed exile. He made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, slowly developed a religious mania and fell into the hands of a fanatic Russian Orthodox priest who persuaded Gogol that art was sinful. Thus an artist who all his life had been dissatisfied with his own work and had often burned manuscripts in the interests of perfection now burned his manuscripts in the interests...