Word: usually
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroiters witnessed what they thought was the first religious skywriting since the invention of the airplane:* a plane which inscribed an eleven-mile-long JESUS SAVES in white smoke. The stunt was the brain child of the Rev. Bert Turner, 36, an itinerant evangelist. The skywriting company reduced its usual rate to $10 a word, threw in a free cross between the two words and a couple more at the end, "if the pilot had any smoke left...
Although he had long known that he was King's man for the Liberal leadership, he never acted like a candidate. He spent the pre-convention weekend at his Quebec City home with his grandchildren. For three days last week he followed his usual routine in the external affairs office. Even when the convention got underway he spent most of his time seated dutifully on the platform. Occasionally and a little self-consciously, he drifted through the ornate lobby of the Chateau Laurier-the closest Ottawa came to a smoke-filled room-chatting with friends and newsmen...
...active in church work and affairs connected with your fraternal organization, but you still find time (40.8 days a year) for your favorite hobby. Reading is tops-closely followed by fishing, gardening, photography. Your usual golf score is around 95. (You had 12 golfballs at the beginning of 1947, and during the year you bought 13, found six, acquired nine by "other means." By the beginning of 1948 you had lost eleven, demolished seven, given away...
...TIME, as usual, was curt, concise, and entirely too accurate...
...usual everybody wanted a scapegoat -the villain who was to blame for inflation. Leaders of both parties were more interested in nailing down the blame for high prices than in deciding what to do about them. But inflation's effects could not be concealed by any amount of campaign oratory...