Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exercises, open to the public without charge will be held in Sanders Theatre on Tuesday, June 21 at 11 o'clock. This is a change from the custom of recent years to hold them on Friday of Commencement week...
...been customary in Italy to plug mailboxes with heavy metal fittings on each State occasion, since for half a century Italians have been prone to "mail a bomb" timed to explode just as its intended object is scheduled to pass the mailbox. To this precaution against an old Italian custom was added last week search of sewers and cellars for bombs, banishment from Rome for a few days or jailing of all suspect persons, and an arrangement whereby one or more police agents stood in the hall of every building past which the German Realmleader was driven. Such...
...persons themselves elected by universal suffrage. The electoral districts were fixed many years ago before the great enlargement of the city population, and thus it takes 23,000 Paris voters to elect one senatorial delegate, whereas in neighboring districts a delegate might be elected by only 2,700 rustics. Custom and usage make it probable that a Frenchman will be elected a Senator only after he has spent years learning the political ropes, serving usually for some years as a Deputy. Although predominantly conservative the Senators are violently republican and have a strong tendency to be anti-clerical...
...before the race the crowd observed the custom of tramping afoot around the world's most dangerous steeplechase course. They swarmed past Becher's Brook-named for the Captain Becher who, spilled by his mount in the 1839 running, dived into the stream to escape being trampled by following horses-past Valentine's, past the deadly Canal Turn, where as many as 22 horses have failed in a single race, round to the water jump before the stands. Next day 36 horses started to make the same circuit twice. Only 13 succeeded...
Expert opinion offered by Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology and curator of Somatology indicates that the man was probably 40 years old when he died. Kidder explained that it was the custom in those days to keep the mummy lying around for as long as four years before he was finally buried in a hole in the ground, covered with sand...