Word: accustomed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stigma was transferred to the anti-Raskobians by their alliance with the Virginia Republicans in this year's primary. But still in the hearts of oldtime Democrats may have rankled a suspicion of Mr. Raskob's millions. Men who voted for William Jennings Bryan could not easily accustom themselves to the Wall Street aspect of the Raskobian democracy, savoring of the Cross of Gold, fat money bags and the stockmarket...
...since the selection of the first and second crews a month ago and his shift from bow to stroke caused him some inconvenience at first. He managed, however, to send the eights ahead with about the same amount of rythm as his rivals for the position and he may accustom himself to the shift if he is given a slightly longer stay in the stern. Harrison has been rowing at stroke for nearly a week and his success at driving the crews marks him as one of the strongest of the many contenders for the berth...
...please this or that nation we consent to take international differences away* from the League of Nations and accustom the Gov ernment to consider that they can escape its judgment, how can we appeal to the Covenant of the League [to avert war] when, between 1935 and 1940, the critical hour, forecast? and awaited by Mussolini, strikes...
...must accustom ourselves to think that this capitalist system with all its virtues and defects will continue to rule the world for centuries. In countries where it has been physically suppressed it is again appearing...
...happily there is a less impossible mode of improvement at hand. It is not the method of these preliminary courses and lectures, likely as dull and incomprehensible as the incomprehensibilities they try to explain. The highest service the explanatory lecture can perform is to accustom the student to the mere mechanics of his surroundings. For introduction to intellectual deeps and desires, there is a better path, namely, the instructor himself. To him who makes plain without making easy, makes colorful without making tawdry makes profound without making involved, initiates will gladly turn. Charles Kingsley's "Let not the sourfaced teach...