Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the stars, the sun, the moon behaved according to law. On Earth's surface, which, from a few miles up, might have seemed uninhabited, mankind's performances continued to unroll. Here & there, as usual, bits of the action and dialogue were recorded by journalists who were, as usual, uneasily aware that their jottings were inadequate...
Fradd said that normally after the six-week period of compulsory calisthenics or physical activity, 85 percent of the men who failed originally pass the five-minute, up-and-down stepping grind. He is interested in making a comparison of the usual results of the summer's six-week period where the men could choose any athletic medium they desired...
Nine hundred civilian Freshmen will make up the autumn contingent of the class of '51, he disclosed. "With about three and a half candidates competing for every vacancy, the selection was a good bit tougher than usual," Gummere declared...
Moore, as a philosophic and rotund bum, has evolved a unique solution for his personal housing problem. He has a luxurious summer home and an equally luxurious winter home--both belonging to an ulcerated millionaire. Moore, however, reversing the usual custom, resides in the tycoon's town house in New York during the winter, and moves to the Virginia estate of Mr. Moneybags when the latter gentleman comes north for the summer. Except for his kind heart, which causes him to take in an un-manageaable number of guests, and the loneliness of the millionaire's daughter, which takes...
...linked themselves as a human chain to the door rails, thus blocking the entrance. It took a patrolman with a hacksaw to cut the girls loose. At week's end, the bank said some 50 out of 800 employees were on strike and banking was going on as usual...