Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across San Francisco Bay Loening amphibians were winging last week. They are the new ships of a new West coast service, ferrying late commuters, harried and rushed salesmen and managers, casual jaunters. With cooperation of the Harbor Commission, Air Ferries Inc. has been granted centrally located terminals, landing places at San Francisco and Oakland...
Other lectures of appeal for the casual listener...
...gape, sigh, and pass on. For these even the shining example of France is of no avail. All that is left to those who scorn the battle of the books is the "paradise of the shirker and the drifter". An examination, of this paradise would be interesting. To the casual observer it might well be summarized by a rough sketch depicting Don Juan in a raccoon skin coat walking celestial streets of gold. However, to one conversant with undergraduate life such a mythical place would probably contain many of the subtleties that make a college training valuable: the whimsical breaking...
...strive for something more than a well written blue book will welcome the occasion to turn a few hours of memory work to the discussion of topics in which they find a new source of influence. The casual student, well versed in the mechanics of organizing three hours of erudition will suffer and very justly do so, if the theses assume their proper position. But the hardworking and thinking student who finds that his greatest efforts place him among the ranks of those who cultivate gentlemanly C's will be saved from a period of pessimism concerning, college education...
...have been amazed at the number of times reporters today come back to the news editor, with the casual remark: 'Can't get the facts of that story.' And then I have been amazed at the number of news editors who casually reply: 'That's another good story gone West; ah, well, see what you can get on this,' and he puts the reporter on another job. That's not newspaper reporting as I knew...