Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part because much of their equipment is 40 years old," Mexican trains arrive on time so seldom that Mexicans call them las tortugas (turtles). In 1947, 162,000 passenger trains pulled in late; freight-train delays were so fantastic that the government suppressed the figures. On one 700-kilometer run, one freight "turtle" crawled in just 100 days late...
Sculpture is thankless work these days. Private collectors and museums can seldom afford it, public buildings do without it; even Roman Catholic churches, which supported Western sculpture for centuries, now generally buy mass-produced statues of painted plaster (TIME, Jan. 17). The wonder is that sculptors keep going, and manage to chip out such new works as were shown at Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week...
...five days a week, sometimes takes work home to his apartment on Fifth Avenue or his country home in Westchester County. He smokes and drinks only occasionally, has no hobbies ("I play a little golf but not very well"), and seldom goes out evenings. He has a simple method for keeping his razor-sharp mind honed: "I just like to work...
...student's preference for Beethoven and Brahms. "I am surprised to hear that you are fond of hearing classical music. I cannot think that many Americans like to hear it. I guess for them there is no great music but Jazz. So you are likely one of the seldom who hear classical music. Many people go to the music halls as they go to church, boring themselves to death all the while...
...stately colonnaded campus, W. & L. is essentially the college Lee planned. Its 1,200 students like it that way. The "minks" (as W. & L. students refer to themselves, with determined superiority-their next-door V.M.I. rivals are known as Brother Rats) affect a high degree of collegiate courtliness, are seldom seen without coat and tie, still abide by the strict honor system Lee set down for them over 80 years ago. Though they come from 39 different states, most are from the South, where W. & L.'s college of arts and sciences and its schools of commerce...