Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ambitious Charles Hayden made it his habit to get to work at 8:30 a.m., systematically budgeted every day's time. Master of every brokerage trick, he drove himself unsparingly through the corporate intricacies of rubber, nickel, public utilities, sugar and oil. He amazed associates by his instantaneous decisions, nettled callers by clipping their conversation short when he foresaw their missions. Partner Stone was silent from the start. Banker Hayden never cultivated an assistant. Until he was stricken last month, he ran his own labyrinthine business by himself, piled up 89 directorships, 58 of which he still held...
...trouble with students or anyone else taking opium, morphine or heroin to relieve pain is that their effect becomes less with continued use and they are habit forming, he explained...
...addicts are entitled to further delay -I urge immediate executions!" shouted Feng, banging his peasant fist. "I myself have a cousin who, after 40 years of opium smoking, cured himself of this habit at the age of 62. Others can do likewise if they are determined!" As the Generalissimo and Premier of China, Chiang Kaishek, was not answering the telephone or reading his mail or telegrams during the week, the Christian Marshal could only browbeat lesser officials and they timidly tried to appease him with just a little death. After Feng had stormed for hours, Peiping police produced a half...
...other engaging traits include a mild manner, great personal modesty, a disarming habit of coupling every declaration with the frank admission that "maybe I am wrong," and a 15-year-old spirit of disillusionment about the possibility of getting anything liberal done for the benefit of mankind. These traits are genuine and at the same time more or less deceptive. Gentle Mr. Norris is not above personalities in debate. Modest Mr. Norris talks as often as anyone in the Senate, and tries to have the last word on every issue. Mr. Norris, who "may be wrong," in nearly every fight...
...affects the human system almost exactly as nicotine does. Nicotine comes from the leaves of any tobacco plant (Nicotiana), lobeline from the blue flower of the Indian tobacco plant (Lobelia inflata), a common U. S. weed which Indians used to smoke with true tobacco leaves. Lobeline, however, is not habit-forming as is nicotine. Dr. Dorsey has never found it necessary for a patient to take more than 18 doses of lobeline in any 24 hours. Usually three or four capsules a day have sufficed. "For a day or two there may be some nausea, a metallic taste...