Word: accustomizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...private companies love it; none wanted the extra risk of covering servicemen anyway. Main effect will be to accustom more men to carrying life insurance-and more of it. The average Government policyholder today is insured for $8-9,000 (maximum allowed: $10,000) v. a national average of just over $2,000. The Government thus far has sold policies to 95% of all servicemen. This should give the insurance salesmen of the next decade a great head start on a rich future...
...rally will be under the general direction of Richard L. Hall '43, who is chairman of the committee in charge of the drive, and who will preside over the meeting. Known as the "Bonds for Victory" campaign, the drive is being conducted by the Defense Service Committee to accustom the University to the practice of regularly buying government securities...
...these outcries, lean, long Representative Clarence F. Lea of California retorted that cows, like people, soon accustom themselves to new habits; that farmers are used to summer's daylight time; that most farmers pay no attention to clocks anyhow, will work as they always have, from dawn to dusk. It was the old argument, which will never be settled so long as some men live in cities and others on farms...
...long-drawn-out, expensive and-in almost half the cases-no good. First a patient must be given a score of scratch tests on his arm to find out what pollens or other proteins poison him. Then for several months he must take a course of "desensitizing" injections to accustom him to growing doses of those irritants. Sometimes the injections give patients all the uncomfortable symptoms of asthma...
Monday evening, the team scrimmaged the Junior Olympics in Boston to accustom themselves further to the Garden ice, and Hodder spent most of the time working on his up-and-coming Sophomore line and the constantly changing second line. As things stand now, this latter trio will probably start the evening as an all-St. Paul's group of Gordie McGrath at center with Demi Lloyd and Bob Cox on the wings. Dick Noone, who figured in one of the two Harvard goals at New Haven, and Bill Claflin, will probably see action before the end of the evening, however...