Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fact also is, that in Scandinavia and in Germany it is common custom to administer fatal doses of morphine when two or more physicians agree that a case attended with extreme suffering is incurable. But a bill to legalize this practice failed in Germany three years...
...government, but also of decreased business costs and increased profits. Although much of his program above outlined has of necessity been theoretical, practical accomplishment has also marked his endeavors, particularly in the effort to lessen the seasonal ups and downs in the building industry, which were found owing to "custom, not climate" as had previously been supposed. "For most types of construction," Mr. Hoover remarks, "it is now possible to build the year round in all parts of the United States...
...Dramatic Club will follow its custom this year in presenting a mediaeval miracle play in connection with the Club's annual large production. A French play on the subject of the Nativity will be given this year instead of an English miracle as in the past two years. Eduardo Sanchez '26, president of the club, has translated the piece from the old French; and in order to give the proper mediaeval atmosphere, the cathedral back-ground in the Germanic Museum will be used as a stage...
Then there was a curious small thing, one which you might not imagine would be a trouble-maker but one which nevertheless came to be exceedingly annoying to the audience. That was the custom of playing, at the close of each event, the national anthem of the country which had won, and of running up the flags of the countries taking the first three places. Now that is a pleasant courtesy to the winners, but it becomes an awful bore to the spectators, whether they be winners or losers. More than that, it rubs in the victory just that much...
This subject has provoked a good deal of interest since the Freshman Discussion Club first debated it about a month ago. At that time several dailies commented on the overwhelming vote by which the Freshmen showed themselves in favor of a revival of the custom. Last week one of the New York papers contained a long article on the same subject. Hazing was chosen as the subject for the interclass debates because of this evident interest...