Word: regularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike at General Motors is not one strike, but a collection of strikes, some of which have been in progress many weeks and others of which have started only since about the turn of the year. Many of those strikes do not seem to have been called in any regular fashion by submitting the question to a secret ballot of Union members. In several plants a few employees seem to have started the strike by the "sit down" method, thus stopping the flow of work and preventing the rest of the plants from working. Apparently, this was true...
...schedule of home-work is in keeping with his final requirements. Many a student, accustomed to the less intense atmosphere of the university, does not know whether he is working too hard or too little during the major part of the year. Were a system of regular examinations held during the year, if only to enable the student to adjust his home-work hours, much of the last minute preparation in June and the subsequent examination failure would be eliminated...
This did not have any bearing on the regular "narcotic abolition" program instituted by Dictator Chiang some years ago and pursued with varying vigor. In the main and in principle, Chinese police pick up obvious addicts, throw them into "hospitals" which resemble jails. There they are given shots of drugs in gradually decreasing doses and when these have tapered off to zero the patient is forcibly tattooed with a mark saying he has been "cured." If a Chinese thus tattooed is again picked up for drug indulgence by the police, they have the privilege of executing him without further...
Extremely profitable to themselves, the Quins' cherubic features are not, however, the gold mine for NEA that might be supposed. NEA gives them to the 710 clients of its regular feature service at no extra charge, and now at a cost to itself of about $100,000 a year. Hearst thought the new $50,000 was too high, so NEA hurried around last week placing new Quin contracts. Takers included the Boston Post, Atlanta Journal, Detroit News and, for exclusive U. S. magazine rights, TIME...
...average speed of 160 m.p.h. for 17 years, one month, three weeks and 21 hours before meeting with a fatal accident, according to official statistics of leading casualty and surety companies. These same figures show that a person has been approximately twice as safe this year on a regular airline than when he is driving his own automobile...