Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PROFESSOR PERRY'S monumental work on William James has been long awaited by the University. It is an immeasurably valuable source book as well as a thorough and fascinating study of William James himself. Thanks to a habit of the James family--that of preserving all their correspondence--Professor Perry had a rich and varied assortment of material at his disposal with which he has done remarkably well in editing and assembling...
Most foreigners resident for any length of time in Russia have been in the habit of buying rubles illegally from furtive natives for 4? or even less. The new decree is Dictator Joseph Stalin's opening gun in a barrage of repressive measures to stop such illegal "black bourse" trading in torn, blotched and greasy rubles at their real worth. Last week the thousands of foreign pinks in Moscow, mostly pinks living on funds from abroad, joined the embassy and legation set in wailing at what means to them a quintupling of their living costs...
...seven years the Blennerhassetts enjoyed their island paradise. In one wing lived a staff of Negro slaves who waited on them hand & foot. In the other, the squire tinkered with his physical experiments. Beautiful Mrs. Blennerhassett, in a habit of red velvet and gold lace, galloped over the island and mainland on horseback or pointed her myopic husband's gun for him on hunting expeditions. And then one day in 1805 Mr. Blennerhassett met a man as eccentric and mercurial as himself, retiring U. S. Vice President Aaron Burr...
...with the habit could make up approximately one hundred books a year. This means that a very small minority do mark up books at the expense of all the rest. Were these few to be startled out of their semi-consciousness with a threat of real punch, the end of book mutilation would be effected...
Here is surely God's plenty for the biographer. Mr. Thompson has given us a good selection of the old stories about Count Rumford and has added some new ones which were worth telling. But his facetiousness and his habit of using Shaksperian tags on every possible occasion detract from the effect which the stories would have had if told in a less decorated manner. The common reader, for whom this book was obviously intended, need not be frightened by the semi-scholarly appearance of the book (bibliography, scattered footnotes, though no index). He may even find himself wishing...