Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...embarrassment since I became a private citizen. As long as I was President, for example, I sent to the San Francisco Welfare Board [presumably Publisher Scott meant the Community Chest] a check every year for $10,000 from my salary. . . . But the folks in San Francisco got in the habit of thinking that was my regular contribution, and have asked me for it every year since...
Britain's greatest and most completely self-made philanthropist is today Lord Nuffield, raised in the New Year's Honors list from baron to viscount (TIME, Jan. 10). About a month ago Nufneld registered privately in high Fleet Street quarters a mild protest at the habit English reporters had of describing him as plain and hearty "Bill" Morris, the bucolic bicycle maker of Oxford who cleverly expanded into building Morris cars and grew so rich in 25 years that to Oxford University alone he has given $17,700,000 (TIME...
...parents, if they approved of the connection, would-what they called-bundle them; which bundling implied, putting them to bed together, the lady with only her under-petticoat on, and her sweetheart nothing but his breeches." Although this practice was denounced in some quarters as "that mischievous, wicked habit," in 1840 a commentator remarked: "Ten irregular citizens are now born to the republic, for one in those days of bundling simplicity...
After the unappetizing sight of crowds of families mobbing the Memorial Church for the Seniors' Baccalaureate Sermon, perhaps the next inefficient part of Commencement Week to be considered concerns itself with the habit and practice of Junior Ushers...
...Civil Liberties Committee. From nine volumes of testimony on labor espionage elicited in the Committee's hearings last year, Senator La Follette concluded that it was a "common, almost universal practice in American industry. . . . Large corporations rely on spies. No firm is too small to employ them. The habit has even infected the labor relations of non-commercial philanthropic organizations [like hospitals...