Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your photo of Agatha Christie [Sept. 15] was as surprising as the unique endings by this superb suspense-and-mystery author. As usual, she had me completely fooled...
Gales of Questions. At Dulles' crowded press conference the pressures blew up gales of hostile questioning. Dulles himself seemed as relaxed and casual as usual, but he had not gone far before he began to signal a new emphasis on conciliation that inevitably set off worldwide headlines (DULLES GETS FLEXIBLE-LONDON...
...looked like a middle-aged man at the end of a long day, but when he opened his mouth, he was the master entertainer. Bing Crosby's topnotch ABC special last week swayed along with rocking-chair ease; its spare (but expensive) sets and casual tone made the usual frenetic TV variety shows look sick by comparison. With Crooner Dean Martin, Gospel Shouter Mahalia
...American educational craving for "three-two programs" (three years spent at a liberal arts college, followed by two years at an engineering school, sometimes hundreds of miles away) seems to make more sense as it is set up at Lehigh. The great drawback of the usual three-two program is that students who find it difficult to tear up roots at the end of their junior year refuse to move on and, instead, stay where they are and graduate in applied science, dropping out of engineering altogether. By providing the "three" and the "two" on the same campus, Lehigh encourages...
There is the usual amount of intellectual division between the arts and the engineering students. However, engineer and humanist are stripped of their intellectual clothing and herded together again for Lehigh's next process of separation: fraternity rushing. (Upperclass figures--5, dormitory residents; .4, residents at one of the university's 30 national fraternity chapters; .1, commuters...