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Word: usual (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week U. S. undergraduates (some 1,250,000 of them), always new, always the same, arrived on their traditional campuses to> start the fall term in the traditional way. As usual, they chattered of football prospects, fraternities, girls, played impromptu games of touch football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unique Burden | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Contrary to usual practice, the band will perform both before the game, and during the whole period of the half, inasmuch as Bates is not bringing a band...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Will Perform in Full Uniform for Today's Game | 10/7/1939 | See Source »

Sweden denied that the firing was her Navy or Army at artillery practice. The British Admiralty maintained its usual taciturnity. Nor was there any explanation for prolonged heavy firing heard four days later off Bergen, Norway. There mighty detonations shook houses of fisherfolk. and reverberations of small-calibre firing sounded for 14 hours. But the British Admiralty said it knew of no naval engagement in the area. So the "Second Battle of Jutland" remained a mystery. But it revived talk that perhaps some day soon the British would try to force their way into the Baltic, to cut off Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Jutland No. II | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...usual chase through the train at the frontier station, Barry and Brenda having grabbed the little black bag with the evidence, make the usual jump while the train is moving, as usual escape. Last shots show Brenda being kissed by a State Department official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...fight if there is any chance of an Allied defeat. Under no circumstances must Hitler win. Mr. Greene perhaps envisages a Nazi-dictated peace which would reduce the Allies to vassal states, which would impose upon them the Fascist ideology, which would force the acceptance of gangsterism as the usual method of international negotiation. Fascism and the use of might would sweep over the world like the Black Death; and in such a world, a free and democratic America could not survive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREENE PASTURES | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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