Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York and New Jersey together with four bridges and the Holland Tunnel. As a State Senator, Mr. Toll served in the negotiations for the Colorado River Compact which was to divide water power and water rights from Boulder Dam among seven Western states. He soon learned that states seldom agree, because they have no machinery for negotiation. The Colorado River Com pact was ten years in the making. The negotiators were unofficial representatives; their tentative agreements were often repudiated by their governors or their legislatures; when negotiations were begun again a new set of unofficial representatives would appear...
Harvard. "He himself seldom drank even beer," says Mrs. Older, "but his friends were Harvard's merriest roisterers. More and more were their misdemeanors held to be a violation of discipline and order. . . . Before he took his degree he left Cambridge never to return...
...director of education and director of statistics. During the War he became the Army's first statistical officer, rising to the rank of colonel. In 1918 he went to France with Woodrow Wilson as statistical officer of the Peace Commission. He has no hobbies, little social life, is seldom seen outside his bank except when making speeches. He says he has "done nothing interesting and is not interesting...
Medical scientists, a gossipy lot, say that the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and the Rockefeller Foundation seldom initiate any research unless one of the Rockefellers first makes the suggestion. Hence last week when the Rockefeller Foundation gave $42,500 to Cornell University to finance a study of diets which will prolong life, medical gossips at once pointed to the facts that John Davison Rockefeller...
...Hormel soups differ from Campbell's in two important respects: 1) they are not condensed, are served without dilution; 2) they cost more. Most Campbell varieties retail for from 10? to 11? per can or three for 25?. Heinz and Hormel soups, which come in larger cans, seldom get below...