Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from across the seas give Hollywood an excuse to present a new version of "Dawn Patrol," first presented in 1930. The war drama, now at the Metropolitan, combines the usual thrills of aerial combat with a psychological study of a junior officer's hatred for his superior. Between too frequent shots of Errol Flynn's frank; boyish face, there are healthy little sermons about "the criminal lunatics sitting around a big table." For although Basil Rathbone does a good job as the villain, Mars is the real villain. The "poor man's war" angle is unconvincingly put forward...
Frank propaganda is engaged in by Rural Electrification Administration, which is lending $140,000,000 this year to build farmers' cooperative power systems. REA organizes "energizing" celebrations with bands, games, electrical displays and fireworks on the day current is turned on for a new project. Most frequent stunt: selection of a pretty local miss as "Polly Power," to preside over the burial of a kerosene lamp...
...Employment agency ads specifying "Christians" (variants: "Gentiles,""Anglo-Saxons") are more frequent than at any time since the War. Rare in the boom years of 1917-18 and 1928, they were more than twice as frequent in the 1932 depression as in the 1921 depression. In 1934, after Hitler's rise, they "occurred at the amazingly high rate of once in every column inch of advertising matter-five times as frequent as in 1932." Until 1934 "one of the great New York papers"† banned the specification, but today "Christian" appears once in every 6½ column-inches, "Anglo...
Young, brilliant, tradition-breaking Defense Minister Colonel Luang Bipul Songgram has had a spectacular career in Siamese politics, featured by frequent promotions and escapes from assassination. Three years ago an assassin fired at him, winged him at a football game at Bangkok. Three months ago his own valet fired two shots at him, missed...
...undergraduates are invited to enter the Annual Harvard Downhill Race, held this year on the John Sherburno Trail at Pinkham Notch, It is sanctioned by the United States Eastern Amateur Ski Association, but there will be no class distinctions. The Sherburne, trail is wide and looks fairly easy, nonetheless frequent bottle-necks and a rutty surface make it a test of Intermediate ability. Only the bottom mile and a half will be raced...