Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High though the hopes of Mr. Green were, the A. F. of L. in convention sessions was not precisely the picture of a fighting machine. Purple tirades against John L. Lewis seldom roused the stolid, hardheaded delegates to more than perfunctory applause. A stirring denunciation of the Sit-Down by Mr. Green brought hardly a dozen handclaps...
...year's gains, the stockmarket steadied last week, then rebounded feebly. By now it was crystal clear that whatever gave the market the first push downhill it would not have slid so far on a false alarm. But the market's barometric value is limited. It seldom indicates how much it will rain, or how long...
...casual observer, Chief Boston will seldom be in the limelight. He never carries the ball from scrimmage, handling it only for a second in the more complicated plays. Few gains, however, will be made without his effective blocking. Nine times out of ten when long runs are made he will be seen somewhere on the line of march sitting on one or more would-be tacklers
...plant the finest collections of animals in the world. Curator of Mammals & Reptiles and general head man at the zoo is Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars. Not the least of many good things to be said about him is that he has written eight books about his work and has seldom foisted on his public an uninteresting word. Dr. Ditmars' friend, William Bridges, is the zoo's gift to Manhattan newspapers. Mr. Bridges is the zoo's Curator of Publications, and it is a dull day when he and the zoo cannot oblige with a good animal interest...
...secret is it that the London Times, stuffiest of all London dailies, not only represents the official opinion of the British Government but prepares many of its leading editorials with Government and Palace assistance. Seldom is that fact as frankly admitted as it was last week. Following the blunt announcement of Nazi Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath at Stuttgart fortnight ago, interpreted abroad to mean that the German Government would soon ask diplomatic immunity for three "cultural attaches" to take the place of the three newspaper men recently ousted from Britain as Nazi agents (TIME...