Word: regularizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called on to exert his authority, marshaled them into a queue which gradually wound half way around the chamber. So many members were in so much of a hurry to put their names on the petition that Speaker Bankhead, after calling hopelessly for order, was forced to suspend regular business. Whenever a Southerner or a Republican joined the line, supporters of the bill cheered. Forty minutes after the session opened, Mrs. Norton had 140 names on her list. Ten minutes later it had grown...
...Taride. It is a terrible thing to see an artillery or infantry operation in open country being carried on by a man who is only able to feel his way by means of a crude tourist road map. The 'lines' are very rough, there is no regular front at all. What you get is a number of concentrations at various points, with big gaps in between." Three-quarters of the movements in the recent Leftist Aragón retreat took place "without the opposing infantrymen coming into contact at all," observed Sheean...
...western world were not religious, parsons, church mice and a small minority of men would have the churches pretty much to themselves. Last week the Ladies' Home Journal monthly survey reported upon what 37,000,000 U. S. women think about religion. Only 47% of them attend church regularly, although 76% are church members. Of Roman Catholic women, 85% are regular churchgoers. Of Protestant women, 54% actually go to church-a percentage which, even allowing for U. S. Protestant men who do not attend church, is somewhat higher than Statistician Roger Ward Babson's estimate...
...Other regular Frain assignments include Brooklyn's National League ball park. Cleveland's Thistledown and Bainbridge race tracks. All told, Frain employes usher at some 40 events a day; a permanent staff of 1,500 work out of Chicago, New York, Brooklyn, St. Louis, Los Angeles, London and Dublin. The annual payroll is over...
...organization that runs on several unusual principles: If any usher gets caught taking a bribe for a favor, the Frain organization gets no pay that day. Ushers must go through a training course, may not smoke on jobs, must take regular exercise, have regular drill under the eye of an exMarine, marching to their own bugle corps. Most are high-school or college boys and Andy Frain likes to think he has helped put more men through school than any other person...