Word: regularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly after noon at the White House Franklin Roosevelt had received a two-line note. "Dear Mr. President: Pursuant to the act of March 1, 1937, I retire this day from regular active service on the bench. Cordially, Louis Dembitz Brandeis...
...history made it a formidable task. Post-War reaction against armaments in 1922 led the U. S. into the Washington (naval limitation) Treaty and a long naval sleep. Sailor Roosevelt woke up the country with a bang in 1933, dumped PWA funds into an emergency program, followed up with regular appropriations as soon as Depression I began to lift, has not let up during Depression II. On its Navy the U. S. has spent $2,742,000,000 since 1933, is asked to appropriate $785,987,000 more for the coming fiscal year...
After all this the Government got to doing some extra heavy thinking about the growing pains of unemployment. And rightly, too-Wal's standing army (180,000 NUWMers) compared not unfavorably with Britain's Regular Army (about 220,000), and his potential army (2,039,026 unemployed according to latest count) was more than three times as big as Britain's total present army strength, Territorials, Reserves...
...health, St. Therese of Lisieux, gathered a hushed assemblage: lean, austere Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State, Camillo Cardinal Caccia-Dominioni, the Pope's protege and master of ceremonies, Count Franco Ratti, the Pope's nephew, Governor Camillo Serafini of Vatican City. The Pope's regular doctor, Dr. Aminta Milani, himself down with a high fever, left his sickbed to administer to the Pontiff a last, desperate injection of adrenalin...
...numerous choke holds are the basis of the art. Choke holds cannot be used unless the opponent is wearing a jacket or coat which can be used as a lever to twist across the throat. "Without these jackets, the jiu-jitsu man hasn't a chance with a regular wrestler," Pat declared...