Word: usual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full swing last week, the 1938 Netherlands war games were, as usual, based on the problem "An orderly retreat from the German frontier and the taking up of positions on a new 'waterline' "-a strip of country that can be submerged within a few hours by opening strategic floodgates...
Women's Final. On the distaff side, the semi-final between Alice Marble (seeded second to Helen Jacobs) and crafty Sarah Palfrey Fabyan made up for the lacklustre men's matches. Playing her usual powerful but erratic game, onetime Champion Marble twice came within a point of defeat before taking the match, 5-7, 7-5, 7-5. Next day, playing against Nancye Wynne, 21-year-old Melbourne stenographer who had beaten California's Dorothy Bundy on her way to the final, Alice Marble needed just 22 minutes to win the championship...
...than is shown in "It is alone the spirit of morals that can reconcile order and freedom," and "There is a moral purpose in the universe." In the substance of his speech he merely showed the intellectual and practical impoverishment of the Republican national leadership by bringing forward the usual vague charges of corruption of the party out of power, and advocated an amateur administration of relief. The Republicans will have to find something more than this rather poor philosophy of individual morals if they are to do anything practical again...
Coach Tuss McLaughry will bring his Brown boys to Cambridge by bus tomorrow morning, so we will have to finesse the usual day-before color story of the enemy arriving today, working out in the Stadium, and camping in the shady retreat of some nearby school...
...Fred Waring show, in addition to the usual Christmas trip is to be featured this year by the Instrumental Clubs, local dispensers of harmony and hotcha...