Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flying up and down the Charles these spring days are four distinct varieties of oarsmen: Varsity, Junior Varsity, Freshmen, and 150's. Those in the last group, however, into a special classification. Their standard racing shell is two inches narrower and a shade lighter than the others, and their usual racing distance is shorter by seven sixteenths of a mile. Weight restrictions limit their boat average to an even one fifty and their individual poundage to a hundred and fifty five...
Just when it looked as if the danger of flu was safely over, an epidemic struck. Last week the U.S. was in the grip of an unseasonable wave of influenza. Starting early in March, two months after the usual seasonal peak for the disease, the epidemic had risen to some 50,000 cases a week, was still going strong...
...Mexico's energetic President Miguel Alemán, 44, and Beatriz Velasco de Alemán, 36; their third child (first in 13 years), a son; by Caesarean section in a Mexico City hospital. Name: Jorge Francisco. The relieved father rushed off to Cuernavaca, shot some better-than-usual (84) golf...
...familiar self, cannot be restrained even by the necessities of traditional format, but only once does he get a chance to break loose into one of his remarkable solo performances with song and piano. The rest of the music is rather routine, though probably Hit Parade-ish, and the usual sprinkling of classical warhorses, such as the Bell Song from "Lakme" is tossed in, too. But no doubt the bobbysoxers will be wild about this one. Not only is their quondam idol, Frankie Sinatra, displayed prominently, but a newer dreamboy, a fellow named Peter Lawford with a British accent...
...baseball games, softballers must provide their own martyrs to the cause from non-playing members, and in addition must carry on without the benefit of stolen bases, bunts, or leads off base before the pitch reaches the batter. Seven innings will suffice in both hard and softball, while the usual four and a half or five frames will constitute an official game...