Word: accustomizing
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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...
...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...