Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mile race. Only a spurt by Lermond on the last lap which gave him an eight yard lead, was all that defeated the University runner. Last Saturday Reid was in the midst of a stiff midyear examination schedule, and as a result was not quite up to his usual form...
According to the urbane Spectator, famed 100-year-old English weekly review, it is "a common saying and the usual remark" in England to observe...
...Immortality of Man. The lectureship is awarded by the Corporation in accordance with the express wish of the donor that it should not be made a part of the regular curriculum offered by the University, and should not be delivered by any professor or tutor in his usual routine of instruction. The choice of the lecturer is not limited to any one religious denomination or to any profession...
Thus on a 1918 investment of $55,000, the shrewd buyer could now realize $304,500, or about 600%. Rare indeed is the securities investment with such a return. Many a stockmarketer turned to his first editions, last week, considered the less usual ways of making money...
West of Zanzibar. Lon Chancy, as a masked voodoo witch man impressing an African tribe with small-time vaudeville tricks, is no handsomer than usual. Chancy, with paralyzed legs, crawls on his hands or pushes himself in a wheelchair. Never believable, the plot involves a number of scenes in which Chancy, Mary Nolan and Lionel Barrymore act with the naivete, but without the conviction, of a high-school class in the Commencement play...