Word: accustomizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
About three weeks of grace will be given to car owners while they accustom themselves to the new-fangled contraptions before Cambridge police start tagging violators of the new traffic laws. After that period, motorists will pay five dollars a minute for their illegal parking if caught...
...Association proclaimed the dissatisfaction resulting from high and rising prices, labor disputes, and "the fat dividend melons being cut by many of the country's large corporations" should be countered not by lower prices or wage increases but by a high-powered publicity program to win public confidence and accustom consumers and workers to existing conditions...
Realism & Calvinism. "The one thesis," wrote Niebuhr, "is directed against the Christian doctrine of the sinfulness of man. The argument runs roughly as follows: To believe in the sinfulness of man is to believe in total depravity. To believe in total depravity is to accustom men to evil. Every step in this logic is false...
Nothing of note has happened around the base lately. Of course there was that Hurricane of last week. Being accustom to Texans, such wind as there was was anticlimactic. At the highest point of the storm, with the wind whistling by Baker, and the Ivy being ripped from the walls, Dave Blumberg leaned out his porthole and waved a sheaf of pay records in a successful attempt to raise the velocity of the wind. The following morning he collected his "pot" for having guessed the highest velocity attained...
...have something to be said for them. With the air of a schoolmaster granting his pupils a brief holiday of the spirit, Adler counsels his readers to support or at least not interfere with a revived League of Nations. For a League or a Confederation might, he thinks, help accustom people to the idea of a single sovereign government for the world...