Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is an old football coaches maxim to wit: the only way to learn to play football is to play football. If the adage is true, then the varsity squad is learning, fast, because it has another two hours of contact worth yesterday. As usual, it was a balanced workout--half offices, half defense...
...surge toward church unity. At one of the meetings that paved the way for the final, formal establishment of the World Council of Churches (TIME, Sept. 13), the disagreements were so sharp that it seemed humanly impossible to reconcile the conflicting views. Temple was presiding, with his usual unruffled skill. "How will this do?" he asked, and read a few scribbled sentences. There was an awed silence, broken by two voices, one conveying the grave congratulations of a European theologian and the other from a U.S. delegate who said "Archbishop, you tickle me pink...
...satire completely smothers the other side of the production's personality, a typical Bobby Clark farce. You cannot hinder Clark with lines and stage directions and still have him come across the footlights. Gone are the painted glasses and most of the leering at naked women; gone are the usual bits of business with canes and other props; consequently, gone is the pure pleasure of viewing Bobby Clark...
Henry Expands. Busily adding to his empire, Henry Kaiser announced a big deal to expand his Fontana steel mill. As usual, it was somewhat complicated. In return for $60 million worth of Fontana steel, the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Co. (which plans an 1,840-mile natural-gas pipeline from Texas to New York) will help Kaiser finance a $17-million blast furnace to double Fontana's 1,200-ton daily capacity of pig iron...
...believer in barter, he scandalized a housemaster at Eton by trying to pay for his son's education in pigs and potatoes. And when Osbert went to World War I with the Grenadier Guards, father Sitwell had, as usual, a practical suggestion to make. "Directly you hear the first shell, retire ... to the [cellar], and remain there quietly until all firing has ceased . . . Keep warm and have plenty of plain, nourishing food at frequent but regular intervals. And, of course, plenty of rest...