Word: accustomizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cryptogamic. College presidents were not amused when Veblen described them (in The Higher Learning in America) as "Captains of Erudition" whose function was to accustom the sons of rough "Captains of Industry" to "genteel solemnities" and urbane forms of "dissipation." Earnest economists who had written cumbersome tomes of unintelligible prose positively hated Veblen when he leaned forward, assumed a poker face and gravely asked them: "If we are getting restless under the taxonomy of a monocotyledonous wage doctrine and a cryptogamic theory of interest, with involute, loculicidal, tomentous and moniliform variants, what is the cytoplasm, centrosome, or karyokinetic process...
...perfectly willing, for the sake of the College, to accustom ourselves to the construction noises between 8 o'clock in the morning and 4 o'clock in the afternoon," said Ken Nedrie '50, petition promoter...
...across the land, shocked radioside "fans tried to accustom themselves to the idea that Joe Louis, the indestructible, was human after all. For half an hour, Big Joe locked himself in his dressing room, away from reporters. When he finally let them in, there was an uncomfortable silence. When a photographer said, "Give us a big smile, Joe," Louis managed a wry grimace. "C'mon, Joe," somebody shouted, "you can smile bigger than that." Answered Joe in a low voice: "I can't open my mouth no more." Wasn't Walcott entitled to a return match...
King: "Please accustom yourself to addressing me correctly. What is this yoti...
...Negro came within an ace of being nominated to the state legislature. Lawyer Oliver W. Hill, one of 18 candidates for Richmond's seven lower-house seats, finished eighth with 6,310 votes, just 190 short of nomination. Said the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "We may as well accustom ourselves to the thought that the Negro citizens of the Old Dominion may send one of their number to the General Assembly before many years are past...