Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nation's present crisis. The habit of taking an intelligent interest in national questions must first be acquired by the young men in our colleges. Such a habit, which is all important for the progress of any nation, is at present nonexistent in America. Habits of any character are seldom formed in old or middle age, and national habits particularly develop during the youth of one generation to be inherited by all future generation. The undergraduates of Harvard and all other American colleges must lead the way in the forming of this new, and what the future will proclaim, most...
...pleasure seekers follow the clanging engine. The light of the fire is in their eyes. Their minds are joyous for the sight of great building crashing, and brave firemen being overcome, and fair heroines on eleventh stories jumping into their anticipating arms. True, such luxuries are seldom realized. The end of the fire-seeking trail is generally a wood-shed or a chicken-house which some urchin has se alight. Fair heroines are scarce; and tall sky-scrapers refuse to burn except at uncertain intervals. Yet there is always hope of some great catastrophe, a second Chicago or Baltimore blaze...
...that there is not more of this Advocate; the contributions are good, very good, but frankly they are not of that extremely high order (seldom reached in an undergraduate publication) which they must needs be if they are to recompense for deficiencies in quantity...
...heart is therefore a gradual if a long pull, and is not so weakening as would be a shorter race. In a race of four miles, then, when the stroke attains an average of 30 strokes to the minute--and in spite of newspaper reports it is very seldom that any four mile crew can attain to this average--taking 20 minutes to row, the oarsman will have breathed 600 times. In a three mile race where the spurting would be fast and furious because of the shorter distance to be covered, we may safely assume that an average...
...rhythms as Richard Aldington and F. S. Flint. Not content with writing six words as six different lines and sprawling them across the page at a downward angle of 45 degrees. Mr. Sanborn has given us lines made up of such monosyllables as "and", "up", "or," etc. And so seldom do we find any rhythmic pattern of even the "freest" kind that we are startled when it accidentally puts in an appearance. This is indeed "shredded prose...