Word: oftener
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...remembered that many a child, desiring attention, will often give evidence of manners so bad that not only the bystanders are shocked, but the child itself...
...tutorial system so that everyone, whether on Plan A or Plan B, would have to write at least one paper a year on a subject which would require analysis of source material. At present some tutors demand b1-weekly essays while others see their tutees no more often than twice a term. It is still possible to spend four years here without writing a single paper, whether for tutorial or for courses, and to bull through the blue books on hot air and a good vocabulary...
Mexican politicos have long been anti-Catholic in public, even though their wives, mothers and children often were...
...campaign of 1940 Franklin Roosevelt, Harvard-bred, did not rant as Huey Long once did about the "lyin' newspapers." He sometimes used a phrase which to him meant virtually the same thing: "the Tory press." Bitter New Dealers like Harold Ickes had often harangued at "kept newspapers and kept commentators." Democratic Chairman Edward J. Flynn talked about "dictatorship [of the press] ... by the financial interests" (TIME...
...animals and destroy the metal tools in a sudden burst of sympathy for their "little brothers" (the beasts) and "the men tormented in the mines." They even refused to kill grain-eating gophers, which they snared and then freed in other people's fields. Singing groups of Dukhobors often marched off into nowhere looking for the Promised Land...