Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edgar Baker of TIME-LIFE International, publishers and distributors of our overseas editions, returned last week from a six months' business trip to the South Pacific, Malaya and India, where he experienced the usual quota of unexpected surprises and contradictions...
...stake in the publication of an Album is greater than that of any other group, including the classes concerned. This is particularly true as the classes of '42 to '49 did not see Harvard on its best behavior. Accelerated courses, show lines, and crowded rooms are not the usual concomitants of happy college days. Men who were in Harvard during and immediately after the war may be inclined to look back on their undergraduate days as an extension of Army training or as just another vocational course. An Album, artificial cohesion though it might he will...
...boat going to the Argentine. But only half an hour of the show has passed, and it is obvious that something is going to break up the happy marriage. What, if not the hero's bad ways and the "gay set"-he hangs around with? There are the usual ominous portents from the beginning, the usual "old friend" with fine, curving lips, named Kitty, and the usual unsociological statement, which goes something like, "I'm bad. You can't change me." She leaves him, while he turns himself good, and then... The climax is a horse race, in which...
...crowded southern Illinois coal fields, the Old Ben Coal Corp.'s No. 8 mine had a good record of safety. State mine inspectors had checked and okayed it on May 29. The night of July 23, the large, 37-year-old mine had as usual been rock-dusted to localize possible gas explosions. But the next afternoon, while a full shift of 264 miners worked underground, a crushing blast shook one of No. 8's 500-ft.-deep galleries. Near the source of the explosion, 27 miners died, five were injured. The cause: "Ignition of methane...
Connie Mack didn't try to kid the fans. He began the season with his usual prediction : his Athletics would finish last in the American League. After all, they had spent nine of the past 12 years in the cellar...