Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Triumph. The moon shone down dully on the litter of broken bottles, rocks, clubs and park railings strewn over the road. Little pools of blood and dirt had collected, here & there, in the gutters. Walking home down the Champs Elysées, where nightclubs were open and operating as usual, I heard a familiar voice near me: "Chauds, les Marrons, chauds!" It was Anatole, back in business. The little men of Paris were carrying on. All over France, the little men, who detest and fear the violence which goes with all kinds of political extremism, were carrying on, and hoping...
...Christianity. Britons in Kashmir began to pack. At the Srinagar Club there were tea dancing and dinner jackets as usual, but the residents were signing up for planes and road convoys that would take them south, like Sir Hari Singh. One trouble was the pet dogs, the Lhassa terriers, Afghan hounds and Pomeranians. Transportation was short, and, it turned out, there were more dogs than Britons on the evacuation list...
Minnesota's famed Professor Maurice B. Visscher and two colleagues had suspected for some time that moderate hunger, the usual state of most of the animal kingdom, might be a pretty healthy thing. In their mouse experiments, begun several years ago, they divided 144 newborn female mice into two groups. One group got all it could eat. The second group got two-thirds as many calories as the first (i.e., a full ration of proteins and vitamins, but less carbohydrates and fats). After the first 240 days, 26 of the underfed group of mice were then fed the full...
...House libraries except Eliot and Winthrop will stick to their usual schedule. The Eliot librarians will keep their doors closed until 1:30 in the afternoon while their Winthrop neighbors, opening at the unusual morning hour, will close an hour earlier, at 11 o'clock at night...
...usual, the outward appearance of the magazine is a delight. Stuart Cary Welch has created another interesting and well-executed cover; the absence of his incidental drawings from the inside pages is to be regretted, but the general make-up remains as fine as ever. There is no point in criticizing criticism, but it is enough to say that what appears here is convincing and judicious. Despite its flaws, the magazine is still an expert job, containing provocative and at many times delightful reading...