Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico cattle empire, reformed a tough bunch of desperadoes, who killed off every rustler in sight. Zane Grey at his best, it is a reminder that probably no other U. S. writer is treated with such indulgence year after year. Zane Grey readers may grow up, but they seldom get away...
...touches which strike the American audience are the little ones--the close-up of Von Stroheim's gloved fist as his French friend, and prisoner, dies; the scene in which the escaped Marechal talks French to a mute German cow. These flashes convey feeling in a way that Hollywood seldom uses, but it would be unfair to say that the best Hollywood technique is any less effective...
...have at the present time," said he, "a new reason for being proud. The scholar is supposed to be a man who has renounced the world. But the world has very seldom seemed more eminently worth renouncing. . . . The Modern Language Association's only object is the accumulation of useless knowledge, and of useless knowledge at least one thing may be said -it never did anyone any harm. . . . Some day when a little child climbs upon your knee to ask: 'Grandpa, what did you do during the Great War?' you are going to be very lucky...
...time point out what the collegians have to say in all sections of the country. Although when the results are taken nationally one student in every ten says there has been some attempt to influence him, the poll reveals that student bodies in the West and South are very seldom approached with such propaganda...
...subject matter is presented in a form expressly designed to meet the needs of the college students of geography. Simplicity is the keynote of the book; mathematics is used as seldom as it was possible for the author, whereas elaborate illustrations are in abundance...