Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Contrary to Mexican custom, the battle raged through the night...
...humane custom to break the legs of the crucified to speed Death. But Christ died on the cross. Nevertheless, nervously, impulsively, a Roman soldier pierced the body with his spear. Joseph the Arimathaean asked for the body and buried it in a tomb he had intended for himself, where no man had ever lain...
...college yard and the University owned property near the Charles are at present being carefully surveyed by men working under the direction of the Treasurer's Office. According to the workmen, the survey is being taken in compliance with an old custom which required a survey of the property to be taken every few years in order to show the change that had taken place in the yard. The last of these surveys however, was made...
...these Indians, which had evidently been recently abandoned by its owner for no reason that we could see Curious as to why he had left, we learned from other Indians in the vicinity that his wife had just died at the age of 104, and that it is the custom, when a Seminole Indian loses his wife, for him to move elsewhere...
Contrary to the usual custom of dissolving the Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau at the end of the Midyear Examinations, an attempt will be made this year to continue the services of that body until June, according to an announcement made yesterday by O. S. Loud '29, first marshal of the organization...