Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most famed of the competitors who gathered at the Oakland Hills Club in Birmingham, Mich., last week to decide the Women's National Championship composed a sequence with Hicks at one end and Collett at the other. People who understood the respect determining this sequence expected that as usual Orcutt would beat Hicks and Collett would beat Orcutt. If one of these matches had been played in the semi-final and the other in the final the tournament would have achieved a suspense that it lost when Orcutt and Hicks and Collett were knotted in the same eighth...
Fortnight ago when Manuel Morales, his sister Rita and three friends decided to spend their vacation in Oaxaca hunting for buried treasure near the ruined temples of Teposcolula, friends considered them practical, prosaic. So did Oaxaca state authorities who issued a treasure hunting license with the usual provision that 50% of the findings, if any, should be given to the state...
...departments, therefore advise it; the feasibility of the general programme is acknowledged; yet when graduation approaches, no adjustment is made. To those who are paying more than the usual price for a normal Harvard education, the University owes a definite obligation. The entire situation deserves a firmer economic foundation...
Following its usual policy of trading in its old airplane annually and buying a new one, the Harvard Flying Club has just purchased a new "Travel-air" biplane. This airplane, which is powered with a Wright J-6 five-cylinder engine, will be delivered to the Flying Club on Wednesday at the factory in Wichita, Kansas. It will be given in charge of R. B. Bell '30, vice-president of the club, and Max field Parrish, who are planning to fly it to Boston Muller Field in Revere will be the temporary quarters of the new biplane until hangar accommodation...
...particular measures should prove of interest and even of value. The substitution of expert alienists in place of a jury system has at least the ultramodern touch; the alleviation of fines to suit the individual income of the prisoner though departing from the stern unswerving rigors of the usual courts of justice, seems in line with proper social ethics; whereas the last important item, the establishment of a federal committee to assist ex-convicts in social re-adjustment, judging from the recent criminal survey of Dr. Glueck, is a really national necessity in this country. Whether these interesting elements will...