Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again! You want the clock to be in the old Fascist position. No wonder. Black is the color of Fascism, and you are always dressed in black." Cried Gallo: "Red is the color of blood!" According to the minutes of the leftist recording secretary: "The priest was glib as usual." Asked he: "Was Garibaldi a Communist?" There was a general leftist cry: "Respect the color of Garibaldi's red shirts...
...Progressive's" contributor, J. C. Farrar of Yale, takes a qualified affirmative position, proposing "affiliation at once" but only on the grant of "certain contingencies." Though reasserting the benefits of affiliation, Farrar says that since "the majority opinion of the IUS is far to the left of the usual American student" and "the European student is a much more active citizen and a more violent political figure" than his American counterpart, "it may seem advisable to ask the IUS to alter the clauses of its constitution covering withdrawal, which are now quite cumbersome, in case NSO found itself obliged...
...school teaches the usual British public-school curriculum, but in a way that would make most public teachers' hair stand on end. There are no examinations (says Headmaster Neill: "They are easy methods of discovering what isn't worth discovering"). There is no compulsion to attend classes. Says plump, pleasant Mrs. Neill: "The young children are so terribly active with their own interests, they often do not attend school much until they reach the age of twelve...
...certain nights when the atmosphere is not shimmering at its usual rate, the "tremor discs" become smaller and can be separated. Astronomer Struve watched his chances, and waited for seven years. Last month, McDonald Observatory at Fort Davis, Tex., had a wonderfully "steady" night. Struve trained the 82-inch reflecting telescope on the Companion of Antares. The image of the Companion trembled hardly at all. In a few rare minutes, he was able to coax it separately into a spectrograph and photograph its spectrum under almost ideal conditions without interference from the brilliant red light of nearby Antares...
Henry J. Kaiser's Permanente Metals Corp., with the usual blare of trumpets that accompanies any move of the Kaiser enterprises, lowered the price of sheet aluminum to 21$ a lb., "approximately 15% below anything ever produced for sheet metal fabricators." The same day, the Reynolds Metals Co., whose president, Richard S. Reynolds, got into aluminum by making foil wrappers for his uncle's tobacco products, announced price reductions averaging 20% on aluminum building materials, such as shingles, clapboard siding, roofing and ceiling panels. Only the Aluminum Co. of America, which had the aluminum business to itself before...