Word: habit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some of our country towns have lately come to have a Continental look," wrote the editor of the British Lancet last week, "for every morning every window is filled with bedding hung out to air in the sunshine. The scene is cheerful, but the householders are depressed; for the habit of bedwetting, in guests who are likely to stay a long time, is a serious tax on hospitality. . . . Somewhat unexpectedly, eneuresis has proved to be one of the major menaces to the comfortable disposition of evacuated urban children . . . and at a time of widespread domestic crisis we make no apology...
...curing hay fever, this procedure sometimes produced neuralgia, hemorrhages and double vision. . . . [In the U. S.] local treatments such as belladonna plasters over the kidneys and ice bags over the vertebrae were enthusiastically recommended. A worthy Ph.D. pleaded for selfdiscipline, fervently exhorting his hearers not to get the sneezing habit-which was very much like bidding a patient with a raging fever to keep cool. . . . Treatment ranged from what was called respiratory gymnastics to such Spartan measures as cauterization of the prostate gland in males and bone-breaking without discrimination...
Make no mistake about that Indian line. As long as the first-string men are able to hold out, Dartmouth will probably have a slight edge on Harvard. Line tutor Ellinger has a habit of coming up with a pretty good forward wall, and this year is no exception. Nevertheless, the Green are green and are quite capable of being duped by Harvard gulle...
...Among the traditions of Lowell House.... perhaps the most prized is our Master himself." So said a past issue of the Lowell House Chronicle. Proudly it characterized Jullan Lowell Coolidge as a "living legend," Lovingly it described these quirks of habit well known to local mathematicians since the beginning of the century, even better known to Bellboys since the House was built. Such affection is a rare tribute to the man who has proved himself not only a scholar and a teacher, but a successful pioneer Housemaster...
...cokes a day is as much a part of college life as saddle shoes and finals. The coke custom is the American collegiate substitute for afternoon tea, it is the excuse for relaxation and conversation. Everyone orders a coke, plain or flavored, usually from lack of originality, force of habit, or because it's his favorite drink...