Word: usually
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heir for Heritage. There were the usual disasters in the air. Ducks, gulls, buzzards, and even whistling swans, reported the Wall Street Journal, were colliding with man-made airplanes at the rate of nine a week. Other birds, after being electrocuted and tied in sacks, were being hurled at speeds up to 500 m.p.h. at the windshields of stationary airplanes by scientists of the Civilian Aeronautics Administration...
...field of seven paraded to the post for last week's running of the $100,000 International Gold Cup, first truly international race of the air age on U.S. turf, Assault was a 1-to-2 favorite. As usual he got away slowly, and so did Stymie, who was third in the betting (at 5-to-1). A 25-to-1 shot named Natchez went to the front, with the two Latins on his heels...
...usual, there is a catch. Since pyrahexyl is a true drug, more potent than marijuana, Dr. Stockings does not prescribe it for people who are just uncomplicatedly unhappy. He gave pyrahexyl in small daily doses (60 to 90 milligrams-equivalent to two or three marijuana cigarets) to 50 depressed patients who had not been helped by psychotherapy. Result: 36 of the 50 felt much better, forgot their vague aches & pains, took a cheerful new lease on life. But the drug was not a permanent cure, and in big doses, it seems to be habit-forming...
...years they increased from 20,000 to a million people. The million composes one of the most tightly organized and smoothly functioning organizations on earth. The church has no clergy in the usual sense, but a vast pyramid of lay orders to which every male is expected to belong and to which a full 250,000 do. Boys become deacons and begin taking part in religious services when they are twelve. As they grow older they may become, successively, teachers, priests, elders, members of a Council of Seventy, and high priests. Women only "share in their husbands' priesthood," although...
These questions face the Congress as well as the State Department. As usual, however, the Department carries the unpopular load of responsibility on its none-too-sturdy shoulders. As George Marshall faced doubting and irate Congressmen last week he might have reflected that he was not the first Secretary of State to be where he found himself. Henry Adams had noted...