Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Politically, Mr. Curtis is a man of the party was their faithful watchman. He was an indifferent speaker. He is no orator today; seldom does he speak from the floor. It is in the party caucuses, in the committee rooms, in the cloakrooms that he patches up troubles, puts through legislation. His friends are many; his personality vexes few; the public is not conscious...
...Seldom has a single man achieved such a large reform. Others have tried to do this very thing, notably Thomas Jefferson in his plans for the University of Virgiuia, but Charles William Eliot was the first who succeeded...
...outside in the Yard between Holworthy and Grays Halls, between Harvard, Massachusetts and University Halls a great throng of two thousand young Harvard men had come together with spontaneous enthusiasm to see, to cheer, to hear the man about whom they had read so much, but seldom or never seen, the man whom they felt rather than Few realized until after it was all over and twilight had descended about the trees and old bricks of Harvard Yard that they had been present at the most notable assemblage ever gathered at the University, that it was to greet...
...farm better today than we did when I was a boy but not as much better as we ought to. ... There is one feature, however, about farm life in America which is seldom, if ever, referred to. ... I refer to the appearance of carelessness and neglect which is so common on our farms. It has always been so; it was so when I was a boy; it is so still. Sometimes I think it is even worse now than was the case 50 years ago. I refer to such things as leaving wagons and farm machinery out in the fields...
...rare is the provision in the American college curriculum for such movements. It is, I believe, largely because the students themselves, judging by the superficial qualities of the professor's attitude, remain indifferent to the things about which he cares the most, that these contacts are so seldom obtained...