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Word: custom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also maintain a Custom-made Department which cannot be excelled. Every garment cut and made to your individual measurements by our own designer and tailors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL ORDERS FROM FORMER HARVARD MEN ARE RECEIVED FROM SUCH FAR DISTRICTS AS CALIFORNIA AND FLORIDA | 12/2/1936 | See Source »

...agree that the world has changed over the past ages, and that it is still changing. Many would confess a belief that it changes for the better. But breathes there the man who has not, at some time or other, wished for a return of the ancient and honorable custom of vigorously expressing distaste at the fare offered audiences by some of our present-day stage entertainers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...most engrossing charac- ters in the history of the college was Tutor Henry Flynt, who "tuted" for 56 years straight. It was the custom 200 years ago for the students to present their tutor with silverware, but Flynt amassed so much silver that his last graduating class could not decide on a gift. They finally presented him with a large silver chamber-pot, which the students carried across the Yard on a Crimson cushion

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morison Tells History of Harvard Yard to Freshmen | 11/24/1936 | See Source »

...Selangor. Because the Colonial Office dislike him, British pressure deprived him of his rank and forced in Son No. 3 as Crown Prince. Last week the Sultan of Selangor was reported somewhat feebly attempting to convince William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, Secretary of State for the Colonies, that Malay custom was interfered with when Son No. 2 was also rejected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELANGOR: Be Carejul! | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...night in 1898 a shoe salesman and a paint salesman found themselves assigned the same room in a hotel in Boscobel, Wis. Said Shoe Drummer John H. Nicholson: "My custom is to read a portion of God's word every night and give thanks for God's care over me during the day." Replied Paint Drummer Samuel Eugene Hill: "I, too, am a Christian. Let us have our devotions together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bibles | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

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