Word: regular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yard, he bowed, smiled profusely, and set about reeling off his memorized speech, involving the utmost profanity regarding the professor, his course, his ancestry, Harvard and the world in general. "I compliment you on your enterprise in picking up so many English idioms outside of your regular work," replied the professor, and the student left thinking what a good impression he had made...
...President's reasons was pretty well demolished last week by none other than Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations. In hearings on the regular Navy Bill, the biggest in 16 years, he was asked whether the Atlantic Coast could be defended with almost the entire fleet in the Pacific. Looking and speaking like the Navy's No. 1 Admiral, which he is, the Chief of Naval Operations replied frankly: "I can only answer that by saying that in the event of an attack being made on the United States coast on the Atlantic side the fleet...
...first place, they're all packed in. They communicate their impulses to one another. They are high-school adolescents and they have been released from school after the midyear examinations, and they are all single and unattached, and they are all maturing sexually, and they have no regular biological outlets for their drives. . . " The darkened theatre shuts out inhibitory reality, and all their minds are focused on one thing. . . . They do sound like goats, don't they...
...practice the pilot approaches the airport in the normal manner along the regular route beam. Twenty miles out his radio receiver, containing a reed converter, locates the course beam from the transmitter-trailer. About four miles from port at a given altitude it strikes the glide beam, a curved path of constant intensity in a field of radio waves. On the pilot's dashboard is a "cross pointer dial" operated by the reed converter. One needle indicates the course beam, the other the glide beam. Keeping the needles crossed at right angles,* the pilot guides his ship down...
...temporary structures planned for the Fair. Instead of this, he said, arrangements were being made with the Metropolitan Museum (eight miles from the fair grounds) "and other like institutions" to hold exhibitions presumably like Chicago's. This message, which also appeared in the Post, was brought to the regular meeting between the artists' representatives and the Fair Board of Design. Mr. Manship's fellow artists were far from mollified, Mr. Whalen's plans for correlating art exhibitions on Manhattan Island were described as applesauce, and the artists voted to call on Mayor LaGuardia for help...