Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of the track team they seem to have the habit of winning so fully ingrained that it just can't be broken. The lopside win of 77 1/2 to 57 1/2 at Dartmouth last Saturday was no exception to the three year rule in all meets except the I.C.4A...
Almost as well groomed as Foreign Secretary Eden, War Secretary Duff Cooper spoils the effect of the most expensive Savile Row tailoring by a nervous habit of shoving both hands through the armholes of his vest while speaking, turning fiery red when excited...
...characters: Countess de Maigret as the wife whose idea of an escapade is to ride around the block in a taxicab with a lover who can be with her only in dark motion picture houses; Hugh Herbert as the theatrical prompter who, when off duty, prompts from force of habit the conversational clichés of those around...
...years ago Dr. Siegfried Elias Katz and Psychologist Carney Landis of Manhattan reported to the American Medical Association on an unnamed young man who, believing sleep a waste of time and nothing but a habit, persuaded psychiatrists to give him a no-sleep endurance lest. He was not watched constantly but had to turn a watchman's clock every ten minutes. He dozed off seven times during the ten-day test and his naps totaled about five hours...
...difficulty is to find what you can do that is right. Once you get in the habit of spinning around the subway island, it is hard to got out of it without running down several signs and policemen. We might say the traffic goes 'round and 'round...