Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...memories. This is almost the only occasion during the four years course when the different sorts of men in a class can be brought together and a sympathetic understanding established among them. There has been a spirit of good fellowship at the Junior dinner in the past that is seldom attained in such a large gathering of men, many of whose interests differ widely. The genuine old class sprit, which has now almost disappeared, revives at these dinners and each man feels that there is a common bond of sympathy between himself and his possibly unknown classmate...
...nation's life, which it was almost impossible to extract. When in 1861 Alexander II proclaimed the abolition of servitude the whole country rose to show its fitness for freedom. The emancipated peasants received land, thus acquiring not only the right but the power of being free. Seldom has a reform exerted so destructive an influence on that which it supercedes...
...account of Browne given by his friend, the Rev. Mr. Whitefoot. As that his complexion and hair sorted with his name, that he was neither short nor tall, that he was neither fat nor lean, but as the Greeks would say, eusarchos. "Browne," said Whitefoot, "was always cheerful, though seldom merry; and in spite of the vivacity of his writings he jested seldom and then with apparent embarassment to himself...
Saturday evening the Ninth Regiment Athletic Association held an open handicap meeting at the Armory, East Newton street, Boston. There were a large number of people present and great enthusiasm was shown in the different events. From an athletic standpoint the tournament as a whole has seldom been equalled, for out of the large number of entries, no less than four world's amateur champions participated...
...would otherwise have been likely to offer themselves as resident or associate workers, have been held back by the feeling that the house was in the hands of a particular group of persons representing special religious or academic attachments. Men who have actually joined us, have not seldom done so only after careful inquiry upon these points. And after coming into residence, some of the residents are occasionally embarrassed by having it taken for granted that they are graduates of Andover Seminary, and are in preparation for the ministry...