Word: accustoming
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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...
...statesman who was also a philosopher who wrote, 'No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. To make anything very terrible obscurity seems in general to be necessary. When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes to it, a great deal of the apprehension vanishes...
...seven years without accident until last December when a Boeing bashed into a hill near Saugus, killed twelve (TIME, Jan. 11). For the last three years United has used only Boeings on this mountainous jump. When it bought Douglases last autumn, it started a series of exhaustive tests to accustom its pilots to the different planes. Pilots had to test-fly under all conditions for 15 hours before they could take a Douglas up with passengers. They had to fly a month more before they were allowed to carry passengers at night...