Word: usual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Redefer went into the field, organized regional conferences for teachers. Unlike the usual cut & dried educational convention, but alive with questions and informal discussion in which everyone takes part, these conferences today draw 5,000 teachers and parents at a sitting...
Last week prices suddenly returned to the official level. As usual, no steel company would comment, but it was clear: 1) that the automobile companies had completed most of their fall buying; 2) that by finally acknowledging and meeting the surreptitious price cuts, Big Steel had convinced its angry competitors that, even if it is not a monopoly, it is still too big for them to trade punches with...
...usual Harvard will be outweighed, 2089 total pounds to 1989, a nice round 100 lbs. Every one of the opposing linemen are six feet tall or more, but tops in Bengal beef are 6 foot 5 inch left tackle Tierney (226 lbs.) and left guard Herring 6 foot 1 inch...
...first games he ever umpired was a clash between the Carlisle Indians and Harvard in 1908. Boasting such stars as Big Bear, Little Bear, and Rain-in-the-Face, the Indians under Pop Warner came up to Cambridge with their usual love of skullduggery. They had painted footballs on their jerseys for deceptive purposes...
Moreover, the author is clever enough to leave out the mass of facts that burden down the usual narrative, and by her subjective approach produces a series of vivid sketches. The first one, concerning her stay at one of the Cape Verde Islands where the wind blew forever and time meant nothing, is an artistic triumph, and at times comes very close to being poetry. it is beautiful prose, natural, rhythmic, and expressive...