Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sweepstakes are virtual lotteries. Hundreds of thousands of prices tickets are sold, all numbered, at prices seldom above ?1 ($5). The total ticket sale, less operator's percentage, is the prize money. Numbers are drawn for the horses entered in the race. The vast majority of ticketholders, failing to "draw a horse" lose their bets. The dozen or so lucky subscribers can sell shares in their tickets for large sums, thus profiting certainly before the horses have won, lost or failed...
Conductor. But it is John Joseph Kennedy who is to the New York Central what the commanders of flagships are to steamer lines. Of his apprenticeship as waterboy and brakeman he bears no mark. In the days of pin coupling, brakemen were seldom "set up" as conductors before they had managed to lose a finger or two. Conductor Kennedy's hands and memories are as smooth as a college professor's. The shield-shape perforation which he carefully makes in your ticket, in your presence', is done with the punch he used on his first passenger trip...
...Porters of Century-calibre seldom indulge in dice, slang or other inferior pursuits. But among "small time" porters and station "red-caps," there is a glossary...
Music, literature and her family are the chief activities of Mary Louise Curtis Bok. Unlike her energetic husband, she seldom takes the limelight. But the Curtis Institute is evidence of far greater self-determination in Mrs. Bok than is suggested by the most intimate glimpse of her the public has yet had, in her husband's biography of her father, The Man from Maine...
...reaction on the work done in summer vacations. At present the average man feels that reading done independently and without coercion is very fine but it has little to do with his scholastic success in college. He must eventually learn, however, that reading with or without an incentive is seldom quite barren of results. Even in August an afternoon spent looking at a book must leave some impression on the mind, the exact permancy being determined by the book which gives and the mind which receives the impression. Therefore the slogan "For Recreation Read The Best" is, in spite...