Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Acoustics was only one of the Court's troubles this week as it began to hear arguments in the first of a series of cases in which it must weigh the velvet provided by the New Deal for farmers against the cold marble of the Constitution. Seldom, however, has the Court had so many friends as went to its aid. Friends of the Court included the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Mountain States Beet Growers' Marketing Association, the National Beet Growers' Association offering briefs in defense of AAA. Hygrade Food Products, National Biscuit, P. Lorillard turned...
With this tribute of Lindberghian modesty from Stakhanov, Dictator Stalin pronounced one of those great Bolshevik discourses which Workers of the World seldom wade clear through...
Readers who note the comments on the English spirit, English genius, character, history which run through Maurois' books may feel that he says things that most Englishmen would like to hear, but which their own writers seldom point out. With a great gift for simplification, Maurois makes complex individuals seem transparent, reduces difficult and obscure periods in their lives, over which scholars still debate, to matter-of-fact and readily understandable situations. In Prophets and Poets he has written of nine English writers, beginning with Kipling and ending with Katherine Mansfield. In an attempt to reveal the underlying philosophy...
...prison cant for earnable credits in the form of reduced actual time spent in prison). The lifer, by the very nature of his sentence, cannot lose anything of that kind because he is already doing "life." Misconduct can extend a lifer's prison stay by years, while it seldom costs a termer more than 30 or 60 days as punishment for rule infractions. Furthermore, because of the very indefiniteness of his imprisonment, he realizes, if he has a modicum of intelligence, that he is the fellow most likely to become "stir-simple," a malignant disease of the mind brought...
...voice is seldom raised, his temper never lost." Thus TIME word-pictured Packard's Macauley (TIME, Nov. 4). During the summer of 1917 I bell-boyed on the S.S. Noronic which the Packard Motor Co. chartered for a three-day convention cruise. At the end of the cruise and just before unloading passengers at Detroit I stalked Mr. Macauley's Parlor A for his luggage-allowing many "sure things" to pass by in order to capture the big game. I got my man and many cumbersome pieces of luggage which I maneuvered to his waiting Twin-Six. Then...