Word: regular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clay pigeon. [Attorney General] Howser must have had a hell of a tip." He was sure it was not a local bookie ("Every bookie in this town is a very close personal friend of mine," said Mickey firmly), nor imported Eastern gunmen. "I call New York, Chicago and Cleveland regular," said Mickey. "I'm a well-informed man. And I didn't get no rumble of anything going on ... If [Frank] Costello was moving in, we'd all be dead...
...four-week-old London dock strike was over. This week 15,500 dock workers went back to work and 12,000 troops who had been taking their places returned to their regular duties. Officials of the Communist-tinged Canadian Seamen's Union did what the Labor government was unable to do. They called off their strike as far as British ports were concerned. So the dockers could, without being called "blacklegs," unload the two Canadian ships that had started the trouble...
...first publisher to use rotary presses in Japan, the first to install a newspaper-clipping morgue, the first to run a picture supplement. In 1923, Asahi inaugurated Japan's first regular airmail service-with its own fleet of planes-to link the Osaka and Tokyo editions...
...school's airy halls, white tiled laboratories and neatly planted fields, the faculty of 35, some U.S.-trained, conduct 64 courses covering everything from general farming to veterinary medicine and postgraduate research in genetics. Regular students, currently numbering 277 (including six well-chaperoned girls), pay only 220 cruzeiros ($12.32) a year for tuition, twelve cruzeiros (65?) a day for food. The ministry of agriculture makes up the deficit ($356,840 last year...
...impressed, promised Cardus the top music spot. But Cardus, never robust, suffered a breakdown. To get him out in the fresh air, the paper sent him to cover the first postwar (1919) cricket matches at the Old Trafford field. He hit a century, and the Guardian appointed him regular "Cricketer...