Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same bells that one has seen at least ten times before swinging in the snow on Christmas morning one impulsively reaches for one's hat. Many fair scenes in which ten minutes are spent in building up an atmosphere are spoiled by small careless gestures. The captions plan their usual predominant role...
Jean Rodemich seems to have become a perenial fixture at the Metropolitan and this year he has improved only slightly. There is much less of his usual solo playing and he has found a fair supporting act in the Albertina Rach dancers...
Princeton had usual difficulty with Amherst. A 60-yard touchdown and a forward pass from Earl Baruch, which Lowry caught to score, were essential in a 14-0 victory...
...ordinary way of making bricks is to press a mixture of clay, sand and water into forms. Usual size is close to 21¼ x 4 x 8¼ in. Such blocks are dried in the air or in a warm draft. Then they are stacked in a hemispherical kiln usually 30 feet in diameter by 12 feet in height. A yard full of kilns looks quite like a group of dirty red igloos. Their orifices are plugged up and a fire lit under a stout grating upon which the raw bricks are piled. In six to ten days they...
Comparisons between Princeton's newly enforced library hours and those of other colleges are bound to be odious-more odious even than is the usual wont of comparison. And Harvard may be expected to furnish a basis for a good part of these statistical presumptions. From eight in the morning until midnight are the doors of the Princeton library open for admittance; from morn to midnight may one finger leaves and copy notes; from midnight to morn may the goodies mop and scrub...