Word: usual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yardlings open their competitive season against Lynn Y.M.C.A. December 16. Mentor Peterson as usual has preserved an angelic silence about anything concerning prospects of his charges, but it is understood that, as in the case of the Varsity, most of his material will have to be built up, there being a dearth of prep-school stars in '42 at present...
...mega-cycle sprawl. The DuMont transmitting system is said to throw its pictures well beyond television's paltry 50-mile effective range. This it has done in the laboratory through its ability to use longer wave lengths which are effective beyond the horizonwide limit of television's usual ultrashort waves, hopes to reproduce the stretch in actual telecasting. And for DuMont receivers it is claimed that no likely changes in television standards can make their newest designs obsolete...
Only the rare guest gets an individual portrait. Highlights of the book are the portraits of Bemelmans' coworkers. Strict but sentimental Otto Brauhaus, the "Splendide's" manager, was an exception to the usual manager "whose face is like a towel on which everyone has wiped his hands." Otto used to say of his beloved primitive paintings: "Sometimes when I'm alone, I look at them, and they look at me, so brimidif, like this," and "he would look sideways out of his face, just like his primitives...
Across the aisle, quite lost and unnoticed in the subway crowd, sat her "Daddy", Richard Cresson Harlow, discussing with Skip Stahley and a few other cronies the great victory over Yale that afternoon. He carried his usual black satchel...
Working with particular emphasis on its passing attack which has not functioned smoothly in the past, the Crimson team has strengthened its general offensive action considerably. As usual the defensive has been its strongest point...