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Word: custom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said Glenn Cunningham, University of Kansas senior, as he arrived in Manhattan last week for Princeton's "perfect race." That race was to include three of the greatest milers of the day-Pennsylvania's Gene Venzke, Princeton's Bill Bonthron and Cunningham. The Kansan followed his custom of not bothering to practice. His legs, burned so badly when he was a child that doctors doubted if he would ever walk again, are too delicate to stand much preliminary pounding. The day of the race he motored to Princeton where Venzke and Bonthron had been training separately, golfing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Perfect Race | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

...audience will follow the custom of joining in with the Harvard songs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB TO PRESENT PROGRAM ON CLASS DAY | 6/15/1934 | See Source »

Japanese politicians have taken over the respectable Occidental practice of accepting financial support from Big Business, but the new custom still smells rank in old Japanese nostrils. Twice scandal has invaded the Cabinet of harassed Premier Makoto Saito, smoked out two of its members. It seemed only a question of time until the great Bank of Taiwan scandal should smear the Cabinet. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: One Thing After Another | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...make a direct denial that this was so, he stormed from the witness stand, cursed the opposing lawyer for a Jew, never specifically answered the question, and was subsequently fined 1,000 marks for contempt of court, as a result. De Wendel and Schneider, according to their immemorial custom, said nothing, and nowhere has a denial of the accusation ever been made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMS AND THE MEN | 5/26/1934 | See Source »

...Like the custom in past years, undergraduates and others who are interested will find places on the grass from which to hear the singing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST CONCERT IN YARD TAKES PLACE TONIGHT AT SEVEN | 5/15/1934 | See Source »

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