Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...window last week, Harry Zinder, chief of TIME-LIFE International's Cairo bureau, could see the flocks of turkeys, geese and fat-tailed sheep, the herds of goats and gamoose (water buffalo) moving through the cluttered streets to the holiday markets. Christmas was at hand, and Zinder, as usual, was finding it a time of rejoicing and confusion...
...site go for a 20% profit, he said. Now he was busily buying up East Side property as far west of U.N. as Grand Central, getting ready to refurbish the whole area. When he sells or develops his neighboring blocks, he expects to make his usual 400% profit. Said he with happy anticipation: "That's how we make progress in this wonderful capitalistic country...
George VI turned 51, but quietly, except for a salute of guns in Hyde Park at noon, another later on at Windsor Castle, where there was a small, private party. The official celebration, as usual, would be at garden-party time on June...
While most undergraduates are enjoying the pleasures of egg-nogs, dissipation, and the usual Yuletide hilarity, Varsity basketball players will be leading a clean, athletic existence. Practice sessions will continue at the Indoor Athletic Building until Monday, when the members of the squad return to their home firesides for Christmas, but the evening of December 26 will find them convened at Cleveland, first stop on the junket...
...this throws Elliott into a panic: American university students must be isolated from the real world until they have at least their Ph.D., to suit him. All the usual warnings against Communist domination serve Elliott as trimming for this otherwise unpalatable idea. But American students will reject the idea that they should leave all contact with the outside world to the wiser heads of Connally and Vandenberg. They have the "naive" idea that the answer to world problems is not the atom bomb and the man-made plague. They will be wary of anyone who tries to fool them. That...