Word: customs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many times daily the twin forces of necessity and custom force the Cliffite to enter into the communal life of her dormitory. In most of the dorms, a rising bell at 7:30 a.m. first awakes the residents to the fact that they are living in a communal building. In addition, fire regulations forbid the Cliffite to smoke or cook in her room, thus forcing her to take cigarette and coffee breaks with her fellows in her floor smoker or kit-chenette...
Their arrival was less noticed than is the usual custom for a Band visit, because last minute word of possible Tiger opposition forced cancellation of a predrawn serenade...
...severest case of bureaucratic bloat, with 150,000 civil servants out of a labor force of 1,000,000. Government deficits pile up year after year. And under the state's blanket benevolence, incentive is withering. Summer afternoons off to laze on the beach are a national custom. The young retired man has become the national image of success...
...vicious than the grownups, they strike with their tiny fangs at the slightest provocation. Mother rattlesnakes do not take care of their young. The rattle is a simple warning, not a love call, and males take only the briefest interest in the females. But male rattlesnakes have the odd custom of "wrestling" together, swaying their heads and bodies with a graceful rhythmic motion. The defeated snake is never bitten or otherwise hurt. Klauber is not sure of the purpose of the wrestling match. He thinks it may have some connection with mating, but admits that the emotions of rattlesnakes...
...success of Breuer's 50-odd custom-built houses, ranging from his own $5,300 box-on-stilts cottage on Cape Cod to a $350,000 modern mansion on Long Island, has paved the way for his small, topflight firm of 15 architects to move into Big Architecture, with current commissions on four college campuses and a share of the Y-shaped UNESCO headquarters in Paris (TIME, May 25, 1953). But unlike many architects who are only too happy to give up designing houses as being low-profit, time-consuming ventures, Breuer (whose fee is a flat...