Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With new confidence the Crimson offense again started to click. Gardella's flat pass to Don Donahue put the Yardlings within scoring distance, as the fleet Donahue raced to the nine-yard line with the twenty-five yard heave. The Brown line stiffened and after taking the ball seldom allowed the Freshmen past midfield again...
...mayor from 1926 to 1930, he gained the technical knowledge indispensable to anyone whom the voters entrust with this measure of authority. His regime has seldom been called inspired, yet he emerged from office with clean hands, which in Boston may be regarded as somewhat phenomenal. If he returns he will find fewer dollars in the treasury and more mouths to be fed, but the judgement and sound practical sense which he has gained in many years of legal experience seem capable of regulating city expenditures with economy as well as humanity...
Hustrated also are scenes from productions by one of the greatest of all American actors, Edwin Booth. Booth played the part of Richard II very few times and in this connection there is an interesting story. It was claimed that the reason he seldom portrayed Ricahrd was that his brother John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln the night he was playing that particular part. This fact gave him an aversion to the role. This has since been disproved and it is not now thought to be true...
...Very seldom do two Juniors make a Varsity berth for themselves after meaning their entire Sophomore year. Left guard Jim Feeley and left tackle Larry Dilkes, however, have jumbled the usual in fine fished this fall on the Indian line...
...great prehistoric alligator the City of Chicago suns its giant body along 35 mi. of Lake Michigan's western shore. From the city's fanlike tail to the south, from its huge bulbous head to the north and from many a populous suburb is pumped centreward a seldom ceasing stream of traffic, most of which flows into Chicago's chief north & south artery, Michigan Avenue. In the heart of the city the stream congests & clots, to the extreme unhappiness of all motoring Chicagoans...