Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...native Albanians, Zog's mansion-passion was understandable. They know that so many fire-eating Albanians have sworn to kill him that prudent Zog seldom appears outside his palaces. Life in even five palaces becomes cramping to an active...
Subway contractors in the U. S. have labor troubles, landslides and politics to contend with. Seldom if ever is their work stopped by any Ministry of Fine Arts...
Poet Masters is seldom so "poetic" as that. He is more particularly a creator of people in laconic, lead-colored phrases...
...that has been written about Publisher Macfadden, he has seldom been credited for his undeniable talent for discovering and reaching new publishing markets. There were physical culturists before him, but not many physical culturists who succeeded in getting the man on the street to read about physical culture. In his group of confessional periodicals, typified by True Stories, he has reached down into an obscure stratum of society and found more than two million men and women who previously read few. if any, magazines. His tabloid Graphic, though not first in its field, out-tabloided the other tabloids and found...
...training. They show a growing tendency to consider each student as an individual, to adapt the course of study to his needs and interests, to stimulate his curiosity, and to develop his initiative. However, the two former plans are narrowly limited in their application. The real young barbarians are seldom honor students or sons of Harvard. They are "C" students in the state universities and newer colleges. Not until these institutions follow the example of Wisconsin and begin to break up their huge classes will we have an opportunity to realize the intellectual possibilities of the first-generation collegian...