Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such controversies, the U. S. scientific custom is to let the opponents present their facts in orderly manner, without heat. In Europe the custom is to argue the matter, vehemently if necessary. European scientists are usually dogmatic about their discoveries, U. S. scientists usually hesitant. U. S. representatives who had never heard a European scientific debate were startled by the violence of Professor Calmette's attackers and his defense...
...Custom requires the hanging of a President's portrait in the White House immediately upon his retirement or death. President Coolidge's picture was in place before March 4, 1929. When Harding died in 1923, Congress promptly appropriated $2,500 for a White House portrait. A British artist, Edmund Hodgson Smart, submitted a picture he had painted from life. One delay followed another. The Fine Arts Commission rejected the Smart portrait. After more delays Artist Francis Luis Mora of Gaylordsville, Conn, was commissioned to do another portrait of the late President, using photographs to get the likeness...
...costs five yards of shells. The wife may divorce by return ing the shells. "A man can have several wives and a woman may have several hus bands, but polygamy and polyandry can not both occur in the same family. On the other hand it is the accepted social custom that a woman may have lovers and a man mistresses...
...Bombay's great British-owned department stores, usually patronized by a 90% Indian custom, stood virtually empty...
...custom at Rotary conventions, Peace, Good Will, Friendship were the words most frequently used in speeches and messages. Thus, President Hoover: ". . . Renewed evidence of the spirit of international goodwill which is so significant a development of our times. . . .'' M. Eugene Newsom, retiring Rotary president: "Ideals may be difficult to define, but friendship ultimately provides its own interpretation. Remarkable it is that the close of a quarter of a century finds us willing to build Rotary's increasing purpose upon that word 'friendship'. . . .'' Sir Henry: "Religious contentions, the predatory desires of monarchs, the thirst...