Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Higher Education 1945-1970 contains little with which one can take issue. Displaying the same aloof, non-interventionist style which characterized his tenure at Harvard, Pusey takes refuge in irrefutable statements or vague and equivocal conclusions. Every controversy discussed has two sides whose respective merits are duly presented but seldom weighed. The book is a tribute to the achievements won by higher education, rather than a critical study of education during this period, its failures as well as triumphs...
Ravenel had seldom known this sort of misfortune in his earlier years. A native of Charleston, S.C., he was First Marshal of his class at Harvard, and later entered Harvard Business School. Afterward, he became a successful investment banker on Wall St. and a White House Fellow...
...completely involved in their work. It is nothing like an office or factory job where only half of one's faculties are engaged. It is a job over which the men can get excited. Every alarm represents a potential challenge, a chance to learn something new. There is seldom any boredom or complacency, especially since the firehouse next to Mem Hall is one of the busiest in the city...
There are seldom any moral questions about firefighting, another unique part of the job. There are never any "good" fires, only "bad" ones, and after working hard to stop a fire the men can feel very satisfied...
...excess. When it is sprayed on a cotton field, it so saturates the air with female pink bollworm moth pheromone that the male moths sometimes go on indiscriminate sex orgies. They try to mate with sticks, stones, vegetation or anything else in the vicinity. However they react, they are seldom able to find the available females; they soon become so accustomed to the scent that they no longer respond to it. The result: a sharp drop in the population of caterpillar young -and crop damage. In field tests near Blythe, Calif., last year, only 10% of cotton crops treated with...