Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lank, stoop-shouldered Harvardman named Richard Newhall Johnson, who looks like Jimmy Roosevelt (and hates it) and who had devoted himself since graduation to reorganizing broken down companies and putting them on their feet. Trouble-shooter Johnson had a survey made, from which he found that the most frequent word used by advertisers to describe the paper was "fuddy-duddy." He also found that the Transcript's 30,000 readers were astonishingly loyal. By last March he had got the Transcript's creditors to take one-third of a new stock issue, at 20? on the dollar...
...stomach its extreme Rightist policy. Editor Cockburn holds down a regular job with the Daily Worker (under the name of Frank Pitcairn), grinds out all the final copy for The Week in one all-night session, fortified by draughts of red wine. He has 40 regular correspondents, makes frequent , trips to European storm centres, has printed some accurate inside stories of the doings of the Cliveden Set. Many times sued for libel, Editor Cockburn has yet to be brought to court...
...separate, independent corporation, but an international stooge set up by Alcoa. When he was finally excused, Harvardman Davis was glad to get back to his 400-acre estate on Cape Cod, where he raises fine flowers and succulent vegetables, works a few hours a day in his office between frequent trips to Montreal to handle affairs of Aluminium...
...fact that it combines the functions of prosecution and adjudication is ground for frequent criticism...
...Among the most frequent mistakes in grammar (habitually made by the press, and even by college graduates): I only have two; You will do as I say; What are his politics? She goes from worst to worst; He's better than any man in the world...