Word: recurring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...background is salmon-colored. Around the central field runs a quiet legend. In the middle all js speed: bugles blow there, stallions leap, and the beards of riding Khans shake out like flame along a wind of fruits and blossoms. But the border reposes. Two figures with wings recur regularly among the budding leaves; their costumes proclaim them to be Persian genii; among their motionless ranks a gnarled ornament appears in various forms that is not Persian at all but "Tschi," emblem of immortality, important symbol of Chinese mythology...
...government is determined to enforce the laws for the regulation of religious societies of all kinds, even should it be necessary to recur to extreme measures. Catholics will be severely punished if. they violate...
Certain phenomena recur so regularly and impressively that they become institutions: the Boston Transcript, the equinox, presidential elections, and the Harvard-Yale football game. Just fifty years ago, Harvard and Yale first matched strength and skill against each other on the football field, playing under rules manufactured for the occasion out of the old Rugby game. No one could have foreseen that that game was to initiate the sport, which now sets the whole nation in a frenzy every autumn. Many there are who now believe that the glorification of football has gone too far. But this theoretical question aside...
...OLIVER H. H. BLACK Reader Black's points are well taken. The phrase, illadvised, must never recur...
...piled up this spring large inventories. Finally, the dull and uninspiring flood of stuff poured out on the air by many stations last season threatened permanently to impair interest in radio concerts; here, too, it is now felt that mistakes of the past will not be allowed to recur in the future, at least to the same extent...