Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England earthquakes seem to follow a usual patern, elucidated Professor Mather, who commanded public attention in 1925 by accurately predicting the advent of a similar geological rift...
...afternoon, the Jayvees, behind newly-elected Captain Larry Ward and second-string goalie Godfrey Howard, romped to their 9 to 0 triumph. Ward notched four goals, with Wally Robb performing the usual hat trick with three...
...months age, Hollywood carefully avoided the subject of anti-semitism. "Crossfire" was a story of violence and hate that was hardly close to the experience of most movie audiences. "Gentleman's Agreement," the second outspoken attack on anti-semitism, shows the thing in almost every one of its usual forms: The hero, who for a few months pretends to be a Jew, discovers it in his finance as well as in a hotel manager, and in Jews themselves as well as in Christians...
...methodical as this picture cannot hope to contain thrills and excitement. Instead it works up an almost morbid eagerness to find out what new civilized horror is coming next. Sympathetic characters turn out to have subconscious prejudices, and each unkind word strikes a new blow at the hero. As usual there is a love story in the middle, and very soon even it becomes entangled with anti-semitism...
...Meteorites. The astronomers, as usual, were full of attractive theories. This year they concentrated on the origins of almost everything near the sun. Dr. Harrison Brown, 30, of the University of Chicago, told where meteorites come from: they are just bits & pieces, he said; of an ex-planet...