Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the usual unpleasant spectacle of the persecuted Freshman hazing the next class as soon as he is a Sophomore. For fourteen decades the quarrel of state and national governments has dragged through courts and congresses and war. Recent years have seen the states quietly increasing their own jurisdiction, even as the federal administration has stepped, more or less successfully, into their affairs; the establishment of state police, the summoning of militia in last spring's strike, the bill pending now before the General Court limiting the small town's power of appointing local officials, are indications of this...
What the haranguing Pandit meant was coldly and succinctly put to the Subjects Committee of the Congress by skinny, self-starved Mahatma Gandhi, squatting as usual on his little dais, naked except for a loin cloth-fanatically revered...
...could only be justified by the existence of an emergency in U. S. shipping. That such an emergency did exist was the theme, last week, of energetic statements from the U. S. Shipping Board and the leaders of the New York-Havana trade. Across from Southampton had steamed, as usual, the Cunarder Caronia, bearing 13 disciples of Isadora Duncan and 587 other passengers. But the Caronia had not steamed, as usual, back to England. Instead, she had paused in New York only long enough to take aboard a capacity passenger list for the first Cunard trip to Havana...
...Delaware, an Episcopal boarding school will be established at Middletown, name, headmaster, still undecided. As usual in Delaware, the money will come from a member of the du Pont family, builders of roads, parks, manufacturers of collars, dynamite, automobiles. The member is Alexis Felix du Pont, vice-president of the du Pont Co., Wilmington. He, slim, tall, fair, slightly bald, made many a munition fortune during the War, plays the baritone horn in the Police band...
...projected development will be a new home for the Metropolitan Opera, to face Fifth Avenue, between 49th & 50th Streets. On the avenue front, there will be a magnificent esplanade. Viaducts, designed in the futurist style of structural engineering, will take care of automobile traffic on different levels, eliminating the usual traffic jam at the Opera gates on important nights...