Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From New York State alone came three ranking Democrats: Brooklyn's Borough President John Cashmore, State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick, gubernatorial candidate Jim Mead, who was closeted with the President for a solid two hours (usual visitor's stay: about 15 minutes...
...said the U.S. Weather Bureau, glancing up from its charts and instruments. A psychological illusion. In the eastern U.S., July and August had aver aged only about two degrees cooler than normal. West of the Mississippi, the sum mer was slightly warmer than usual...
...England "vacation-land," August had indeed been wet, with 67% more rain than usual. Here was where psychology got its innings: vacationers consider wet or cloudy weather cold, even when the thermometer aver ages only a trifling two degrees below normal. And August is the month which most vacationers remember...
...respect the summer was better than usual: there had been almost no "Bermuda highs" - the masses of stagnant air which often loiter for days or weeks over the Atlantic. Slowly revolving in a clockwise direction, they plague the coast al areas with sweltering humid weather blown off the tepid Gulf Stream, make Manhattan seem like Manila or Singapore...
...fifth of the usual transmitter weight will be required henceforth for ordinary communication purposes with a device announced to the American Psychological Association recently by Dr. J. C. R. Licklider, lecturer in Psychology and research fellow at the Psyche-Acoustical Laboratory. Known as the premodulation clipper, the gadget uses a fraction of the normal power in transmitting speech in a distorted but intelligible...