Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reversing the usual process in academic circles, Professor F.D. Cheeney, a visiting Professor studying at the Graduate School of Education, was thrown by the bull. Cheeney, who hails from the wild hinterlands of Colorado, was intrigued by the challenge coming over the ether lately; "Can you ride Big Syd?" and tossed his name in the hat over at Brave's Field where the Rodeo is being held...
...usual he complied with all the laws he could find. He carefully incorporated his enterprise under Nevada statutes as the Sevenseas Trading & Steamship Co. In deference to sound sanitation practices he had 150 gleaming new toilets installed aboard the ship. Finally he had the white, neon-decorated floating casino towed 7.8 miles to sea-well past anybody's three-mile limit...
Curley started on the mound for Dudley but lacked his usual stuff as Dunster tallied six times in the first four frames. Marty Greeley replaced him in the fifth and went on to receive credit for the win. Landon Clay went all the way for the Funsters and pitched well, allowing few earned runs and becoming the victim of numerous infield hits and misplays by his teammates...
...Grace jointly announced a 99-year agreement under which Panagra will offer direct daily through service from the U.S. to South America, with Panagra planes and crews flying over Pan Am's routes from Miami and New Orleans to the Canal Zone and going on from there as usual. All that is needed now is the official blessing of CAB, which has already nodded approval...
...made it too easy for shaky roads to qualify for refitted stockholders' management. Others pointed out that the bill exempts future transactions in rail securities from ICC and SEC supervision, leaving the field wide open for speculators. All agreed on one point: that the bill would reverse the usual position and give the stockholder a preferred position over the bondholder...