Word: accustoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transept of Dartmouth College's vast, cruciform gymnasium at Hanover, N. H. lies the fastest foot-racing track in the world. It was laid seven years ago on the college's 30-year-old indoor cinder track so that Dartmouth boys competing in big indoor meets could accustom themselves to board tracks. But in building it, Dartmouth's Buildings Superintendent Willard Gooding made a few constructive errors...
...successive nights and mornings, the Air Corps' Brig. General Arnold N. Krogstad sent Boeing B-17 ("Flying Fortress") and Douglas B18 bombers flying 180 miles southward from Langley Field, Va., to Fort Bragg. Ordered to fly at 4,000 feet the first night, to accustom the observers, bombers later went up to 18,000, 20,000 and 24,000 feet heights now practicable thanks to a new, secret bomb sight. Without fail, civilian groundlings heard or saw, got warnings to Fort Bragg within three minutes. On a headquarters defense map, lighted in red and green, winking bulbs "tracked...
Besides, the slip of the tongue is to the radio broadcast as the typographical error is to the printed page. To paraphrase, it is hard to teach an old speechmaker new verbal tricks, or to accustom him to an accepted pronunciation when he has been in the habit of using another. And as the radio magnifies so many things, it magnifies these mistakes. Some peculiarities in the mouths of celebrated persons have become so famous that the speaker dare not change them without risking the charge of affectation. In this connection, a famous speaker whose "raddio" was a standing subject...
...that post for four years until New York's Governor Herbert Lehman drafted her to advise him on Relief. Last week, Head Resident Carr arrived in Chicago to take up her Hull House duties. For all Hull House's fame, the new head resident will have to accustom herself to an old-fashioned budget that rarely exceeds $100,000 a year. Said she after her arrival: "I wouldn't presume to say I could carry on the tradition of Miss Addams. I'm going to do the best...
...competition will consist of outdoor work with the Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Freshman teams, while in addition one or two men will work in the Varsity locker room during practice. The assignments and duties of the candidates will be changed daily to accustom them to the different duties...