Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restitution of his inheritance. Any not-too-well cured dope addict might have had this scarcely brilliant idea, but what about Reform No. 1 ? Who put pro-Red ideas into the noodle of the Kidnapper? Old Chang, when he held Peiping (TIME, June 27, 1927 et seq.) indulged his habit of doing something so fantastic that today only Adolf Hitler does it: he caused the heads of Communists to be actually chopped off and "roll in the sand." Old Chang's executioner with his great broad sword, and sometimes Old Chang with his gold-plated Mauser pistol, killed many...
...Spanish physician whom American Indians taught to smoke tobacco introduced that indigenous American plant to Europe in 1558. Sir Walter Raleigh, whom Sir Francis Drake taught to smoke a pipe in 1586, made smoking fashionable in Elizabethan England. Now the tobacco habit is so deeply fixed among mankind that U. S. consumers alone last year bought 134,607,741,257 cigarets, 4,763,883.947 cigars, 95,875 tons of pipe tobacco, 18,030 tons of snuff. That smoking is not injurious to the vast majority of smokers is attested by the microscopic size of the anti-tobacco movement...
Uruguay's Foreign Minister, José Espalier, a fluent orator who was trained for the law but never practiced it, who at 70 looks like anything but the rich man that he is. His hat is always crushed, due to his habit of carrying it under his left arm, and over his wing collar his cheeks are always bristly since he uses a barber's clippers instead of a razor...
...romped with the children, teased the pretty, high-spirited 14-year-old Betsy Balcolme, a St. Helena heiress who played tricks on him, pulled his hair, once almost killed him with one of her pranks. Making a great fuss over his rights, Napoleon outsmarted his jailers almost from habit, played on the sympathies of Europe, started such rumors that presently a large body of troops and a good-sized fleet were assembled to prevent an escape that was literally impossible. Napoleon would hide from his guards, dress his servant in his clothing, start a panic, then shake his head gleefully...
Harvard's basic system of teaching, as developed under Dean Pound, rests on solid ground, for it puts the emphasis not just on practical craftsmanship,--learning to write briefs and wills and the like,--but on building up a sound thinking habit in the law; the difference between smartness and wisdom. It is in adapting its outlook to changing economic and social conditions and in taking a more realistic attitude toward the problems of undergraduates and students that the present faculty committee can return to Harvard the hallmark of supremacy in the world of legal education...