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Word: custom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever Dame Fortune may decide to do (and she possesses extraordinary powers over the results of hockey games), tradition at least favors the Crimson cause, for it has been the custom for years that Yale loses the day after the Junior Prom. And illness has done the Elis no good, for Bill Moore, first line center, took to his bed a week ago, and defense men Lyn Wilson and Blake Shepard, and goalie Tom Stockhausen, are just getting back into the game after doctor-enforced rests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/7/1936 | See Source »

However, you have omitted a few facts about sumo. You speak about the liberality in allowing the contenders to delay the starting of matches. The actual fact is that ancient custom holds that all preliminary ceremonies even including breathing must be performed in absolute rhythm to prevent one participant from obtaining any undue advantage over the other in the start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 2, 1936 | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...against a $13,888,000 profit in 1934. Built around Fleischmann yeast, Royal baking powder and Chase & Sanborn coffee, Standard Brands made some $87,750,000 in its six full years of business life. But the "Standard" brands have, in effect, standard prices which both competition and custom make difficult to raise. Consequently Recovery, with higher costs, has brought lower profit margins and a decreased profit. The common closed last week at $17.62, about 18 times 1935 earnings of 97? a share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Earnings & Market | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...banker. Now 57, he went to Harvard (Class of 1899), worked in J. P. Morgan & Co. for a year, has been in the family bank ever since. Few years ago he built a new town house on Manhattan's East 93rd Street, there carries on the old Baker custom of lavish Christmas Day receptions, with a big present for each guest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pepys & Baker | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

Threatening the very foundations of civilization, the custom of allowing the female to pursue the male with the approbation of convention is at the present moment the most destructive influence in human relations. History proves time and again that running contrariwise to nature has but one inevitable outcome-destruction. It may be pointed out that the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world; but, once every four years man closes his eyes, woman dons the pants, the hand seen rocking the cradle is a hairy, masculine one, and the female claw still clutches its cherished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEARTS AND FLOWERS | 2/29/1936 | See Source »

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