Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...custom, the argument was based upon a practical subject. Very much simplified, the problem revolved on the question as to wether a certain specified trust fund interfered with a certain specified real property law, manufactured for the purpose...
...Paddy O'Day" is one of those pictures in which no one can help smiling after Jane Withers, Miss Temple's only rival, has told him in her inimitable way to hold up his chin. As is her custom, she makes a real fellow out of a hopeless sissy; so much so that he feeds his favorite stuffed bird to her vivacious pup. But her achievements are never limited to such trivial reformations, for she is a minor Orphan Annie. This time she puts over a night-club venture for a bunch of Russian immigrants whom...
...organic and inorganic matter was sharp. It grew hazy when chemists began to make com pounds artificially. They found that hydrocyanic acid, simply standing in water, gives rise to urea and other substances found in living tissues. Now that thousands of organic compounds have been synthesized, it is chemical custom to call "organic" any compound, however formed, that contains carbon, since carbon is a notable component of plants and animals. Lately Rockefeller Institute researchers have isolated in the form of crystals a virus which causes a plant disease called tobacco mosaic. The virus seems to consist of a protein molecule...
WTith its Indiana line-an "assembled" product-White is the only truck company that blankets the entire price field. Indianas are priced as low as $695. Big Whites, like the 28-ton tractor-trailer lately delivered to a coal mining company for stripping operations, are virtually custom made and priced accordingly. White's production last year was about 8,000 trucks, 1,000 buses, with a total value of some...
...Button & Co. has been publishing good books for 77 years. Grand Old Man of Button's is a white-whiskered Virginian named John Macrae, 68, president since 1923. A longtime Button custom has been to give employes a Christmas ''bonus'' of a new $10 bill. Last year Depression cut the bonus to $2.50, to the mental anguish of the three proud litterateurs who accept or reject Button books. Last week the three got together beforehand and resolved not to accept another $2.50 tip. When the cashier appeared with the envelope, each said with decision, "Thank...