Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...produce a life-like image in so few words as can Mr. Cozzens. And in addition to being convincing, his people have the eminently desirable virtue of being amusing--the combination forming a nice evidence of the author's talent. Their conversation crackles with a verve that is seldom actually attained on Wall or Main or Maple Street, though, in truth, the whole book is pitched in that vivid key, kindly reserved by Providence for fiction...
...Seldom or never before have President Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg collaborated on an epistle of such scathing vigor. What they said, in the necessarily polite "language of diplomacy," may be impolitely but exactly paraphrased...
...wing itself was almost in the position of a stabilizer. It also had the eccentricity of a decolage, or angle of the lower wing in relation to 'the upper wing, and a pilot's seat placed back against the tail. Questions addressed to a nervous, alert, bearded little man, seldom far away, brought vociferous response supplemented by rapid curves and graphs sketched upon a pad always in hand, to prove the qualities of stability possessed by this unique craft. Having completed the professoriat demonstration Prof. A. A. Merril of the Daniel Guggenheim Graduate School of Aeronautics at the California Institute...
...Sons of public men nowadays are seldom permitted to participate in their parent's official experiences. The usual feeling is that they should be shielded from fame rather than educated by means of it. A century ago the attitude was different. For example, 16-year-old James Gallatin, son of famed Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, was taken to Europe as private secretary on the father's diplomatic mission which resulted in the Treaty of Ghent...
Other circumstances under which a state's electoral vote can be but seldom is split are: 1) when two weak parties join forces and present a fusion ticket sharing the electoral votes according to a predetermined arrangement, 2) When enough voters go out of their way to "scratch" the names of individual electors...