Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...direction, a Boy Scout took a young buddy through three grades in three months. A 17-year-old "total reading disability" case was learning 73 new words a day within three months. She has also helped Phi Beta Kappa students who think they can't read fast enough (usual diagnosis: they are reading word by word, instead of by groups of words...
...Russia is just up to the usual propaganda trick...
...Signed the $6 billion appropriation for the foreign-aid program; the one-year extension of the reciprocal trade bill, with regret that it was not for the usual three-year period; the draft bill; appropriation bills carrying almost $10½ billion to bolster the Army, Navy and Air Force; the $573 million waterways and flood-control bill (TIME...
Whiskers & Lipstick. Whatever self-consciousness TV induced may have had a good effect on public manners. Only one drunk was spotted by the camera. Oratory, for the most part, was less protracted than usual. Radio, said Alf Landon, had trimmed convention speeches down by two-thirds; he looked for television to cut it down another third...
...Without the usual polite little note of farewell, President Truman dropped Dr. Thomas Parran from his job as: 1. White House physician. 2. Army Surgeon General. 3. Navy Surgeon General. 4. U.S. Public Health Service Surgeon General. 5. Medical advisor for Indian reservations...