Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China reported a waiting list of 4,000 students-double the usual yearly quota -whose passports were stamped and ready whenever...
...other, and locked securely in jeweled boxes, the hairs have been preserved in the mosques for generations. Each year, on Kadir night, at the end of the feast of Ramadan, the bags are opened and the hairs displayed to the faithful. Last week when the muezzins went as usual to find the relics, they had disappeared...
...Ottawa last week the disbanding Canadian Women's Army Corps moved out of Kildare Barracks, left the two roomy brick houses invitingly vacant. This was just what 150 war vets, who had formed the Veterans' Housing League, had been waiting for. They had failed in all the usual approaches to the Government to find adequate housing. The day after the CWACs cleared out, V.H.L. Leader Franklyn Edward Hanratty, a pint-sized pepper pot who flew 48 R.C.A.F. missions, handed an ultimatum to Ottawa's Mayor Stanley Lewis to do something about housing or else. The Mayor...
...virus is not easy to kill; it resists the usual treatment of water with chlorine. But Major James Baty, the Army's chief sanitary engineer, last week announced a successful method: superchlorination with 15 times the normal concentration of chlorine. To make the water fit to drink, it then has to be dechlorinated with a neutralizer, sodium sulphite...
...usual, no one could explain the drop satisfactorily, nor when-and if-the market would go up again. The New York Times, noting that the sharpest slumps came between noon and 1 o'clock, cracked: "Could [the cause] be anything so elementary as alimentary...