Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Remaining was still the usual possibility: an All-California final between Miss Wills and Miss Jacobs. But all unexpectedly, it became international, for England's gaunt Mrs. Phoebe Watson in her semi-final match against Helen Jacobs, drove deep low arcs, came seldom...
...last week hundreds of stamp collectors convened at Minneapolis for the 44th annual meeting of the American Philatelic Society, largest of such U. S. bodies. They swapped stamps and stamp stories, spoke familiarly of "Luzons" (Philippine issue), "Bull's-eyes" (elliptically shaped Brazilian issue), compared albums. Seldom in the history of Minneapolis have there been so many pairs of tweezers in town. Stamp-men tweeze their treasures to avoid smudging, wear, tear; to hold them up to the light or pick them out of benzine baths in search of watermarks...
...chin, on flattened nose, in his lean torso. Baffled but vicious, the Italian continued his savage rushes. To "Long Count" Dave Barry, referee, they looked convincing. But not so convincing to the ringside judges. So, after ten hard rounds, by vote of 2 to 1, Sammy Mandell kept his seldom-risked crown, was very glad the struggle was no 15-rounder...
Frank James Marshall, U. S. champion, is a large man with a red face and a hooked nose. He plays a dashing, "romantic" game; seldom draws but often loses. Marshall's style is fascinating to the onlooker, but usually does not finish him high up among first class players. He invented what is known as the Cambridge Springs variation in the Queen's Gambit. Marshall is also a bridge expert with a fondness for No Trump bids...
...Denver Public Library boasted of a fine collection. The librarians worked in peaceful seclusion over its catalogs, browsed undisturbed among the locked shelves. Bolok-seekers seldom dared or had a chance to interrupt them in their solemn labors. But one day the quiet, musty atmosphere of the building was suddenly shattered. John Cotton Dana, a civil engineer, was made Librarian. Declaring the value of a library was not in its collection but circulation, he opened the shelves, removed red-tape, gave Denver citizens a chance to read. When this was accomplished the new Librarian promptly began working on another radical...