Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days later Mr. Cotton was reconfirmed to his post which ranks second only to that of Statesman Stimson himself?but this time, in the more usual closed executive session...
...many hours later those same newsmen and photographers rode up the Bay. Once more in their respective newspaper offices, they were greeted by skeptic city editors with the usual dubious grunts. Conversation in one Manhattan city-room ran something like this...
Thirty lawyers appeared to defend Assassin Ratchitch last week; 60 to prosecute him. The legal babble approached a pandemonium. Jugoslavia is excellent tinder for an immediate conflagration. Therefore, the trial of Ratchitch was despatched with more than usual speed and sentence was passed, last week, condemning the slayer of Raditch to 20 years' imprisonment at hard labor. Croats calculated the bitter mathematics. Three men had died from the Ratchitch bullet. Twenty years' imprisonment for Ratchitch; the life of a Raditch therefore was worth exactly six years and eight months of a Ratchitch life. They fingered the revolvers in their pockets...
...Comparative Anatomy, for example, the work is covered all too quickly as it is, and cutting a month from the schedule would be disastrous. It would seem more desirable to disregard the reading period in the majority of courses with extensive laboratory periods and continue the lectures as usual...
...more than 500 is already assured for the Senior Spread on Monday, June 17. Of the applications which have been received so far only one has been for a stag ticket. According to the committee if the present rate at which applications are being received is maintained the usual attendance of 1,000 or so will be equalled this year. If applicants desire to have their names included in the box list they must hand them in before Thursday of this week in order that the list may be printed by Monday...