Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME [Jan. 20] erred from its usual outstanding accuracy in implying presidential or vice presidential ambitions to me. In fact, the quote which you ascribed to me is exactly the opposite of the comments which I made to a number of reporters, any one of whom, I believe, can testify that I stated substantially this: "This is one fellow whom the presidential and vice presidential bug has not bitten. We've got too much work on our hands in 1947 and 1948 in the Congress itself to dawdle in speculation about the presidency." As Chairman of the [Senate] Judiciary...
That night, as most nights, Monson and his buddies went back to the post feeling rather beaten, wondering as usual why they had ever gone to town. The old sack in the squad room felt good. They went to sleep, concentrating hard on their thoughts of little towns like Holmen...
Honking & Clashing. Although the graft was perhaps more flagrant than usual, most other signs in the new 7,038-island republic were encouraging. Cabled TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod: "If independence can be made to work in the Orient, it will work here. There is more reconstruction here than in Siam, Burma and Indonesia combined. All night long, air hammers and steam shovels stutter and grunt through Manila's pleasantly cool darkness. In daylight, thousands of new passenger cars and bright orange and yellow buses, but above all jeeps-taxi jeeps, truck jeeps and passenger jeeps-turn downtown Manila into...
...taken on a more democratic hue. In the average mind, it is still limited to graduates of the suburban high schools who can afford the price. The simple expedient of sending representatives of the college to all secondary schools in an area, and not solely to those of the usual array of collected prep and suburban schools, would be the shot in the arm necessary to spread the notion of Harvard scholarships to a greater cross-section. A closer cultivation of educational advisers in the same industrial-rural area schools might dispel much of the gloom that these indifferently-informed...
Since students under this plan of study are limited to 18 courses, both parties granted modification to these heavy demands. The Navy was granted power to reduce course requirements when its demands make completion of both plans impossible. The Faculty may grant reduction of the usual concentration regulations, and the Mathematics and Physics courses can be passed off by "appropriate high-school courses...