Word: regular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immediately taken with the tremendous passing and kicking skill exhibited by the freshman ace. He is, in this observer's opinion, far and away the best passer of the postwar era in Cambridge. Unfortunately, 19-year-old Carroll Loewenstein only weighs 148 pounds, which is too light for a regular tailback in college football...
...hours, thought nothing of sitting up all night in a good political discussion. As Governor, he has modified many of his old habits, and now usually turns up in public looking clean but rumpled in a seersucker suit with a sober four-in-hand tie. He puts in regular office hours, and during the legislative session, sometimes worked an 18-hour day. During inauguration week, when he wore a white tie and tails for the first time in his life, he relaxed at a party by arguing at length with a friend that the atom bomb had made the tailcoat...
Opera Ballet School. By the time she was a nimble 15, Nora was a regular member of the Met's corps de ballet...
...June 20. After that, any "large" irregular carrier (i.e., flying any airplane heavier than 10,000 Ibs.) would have to have CAB's permission to stay in business. In granting permits, CAB would hold the nonskeds accountable for such past sins as flying on what amounted to regular schedules, and thus, according to scheduled airlines, taking business away from them. Anybody who got a permit would have to stick to irregular charter service...
...tough problem. It had to look out for the well-being of the regular airlines, and the taxpayer who subsidized them, but it also had a duty not to stifle the free, enterprising spirit in which the nonskeds had been born...