Word: regularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certificate is out of circulation and stick it onto his dollar to keep it up-to-date. After two years, when all 104 stamps have been affixed at a total cost of $1.04, the velocity dollar can be turned in at the Alberta Treasury and exchanged for a regular Canadian dollar...
...arrival, Pacification Commissioner General Yu got his hands on 300 Kwangtung fighting planes, two large arsenals, an airplane factory, half a million rifles, vast ammunition stores, anti-aircraft guns and tanks. Next he tried to think what to do with South China's comparatively well-trained 200,000 "regular" Chinese soldiers who will find time hanging heavy if they are not provided with some sort of activity. The entire South China rebellion, it appeared, was an affair not of lead bullets but of "silver bullets," the elegant Chinese euphemism for bribes too stupendous to be called "squeeze...
With their drugstore profits they snapped up a beer concession at the end of a Manhattan streetcar line in the early 1900's when trolley riding was a regular holiday sport. There they were discovered by the late Marcus Loew, who knew smart showmen when he saw them. The theatre man helped them develop Palisades Park across the Hudson River from Manhattan, which they still own, gave them good steers on other amusement investments. Joe Schenck later went to Holly wood where he married Norma Talmadge and headed United Artists for years. Nick Schenck stuck by Loew...
...between whites to hunt scalps, for which they received eight dollars apiece at British headquarters at Niagara. The farmers who made up the U. S. militia hurried home after each victory or defeat, since they had to get on with the crops between battles. Now & then detachments of the regular Continental Army marched in to defend the frontier, seemed always to arrive when they were not needed, to leave just before they were. After six years of intermittent hostilities, the 2,500 men on the militia rolls of the Mohawk Valley had been reduced to less than 800, although only...
...less than six months, those of the only two players ever chosen for an All-Star team in their first season as major-leaguers. One was Stuart ("Stew") Martin who had certainly earned his position by ousting his own manager, famed Frankie Frisch, as the Cardinals' regular second baseman. A 22-year-old North Carolinian, who last year at this time was utility man on the Asheville team in the Piedmont League, Martin's batting average of .349 for the 60 games he has played in this year has made him one of the five leading batsmen...