Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other times, such scientific concentration was generally advised by those in authority. Of late, however, tutors and advisers have begun to observe the advantages to be gained from a more liberal education. In spite of this slowly changing attitude, there remains a conviction, or rather, a habit, which leads unfortunates to the laboratories in droves. Disregarding the well known advantages of a "cultural background" many men continue to elect courses in Biology, which involve a great deal of laboratory work, and which will later be almost duplicated in medical school. Their time is spent crouched over a defunct dog-fish...
Raising herds of reindeer is almost the sole business of nomad Lapps. Illiterate and uncivilized, they make little or no distinction between Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, roam the extreme northern wastes of those countries which they call "Lapland." When winter comes adult nomad Lapps have a persistent habit of getting dead drunk for months at a time, leave to their hardy children the task of feeding the reindeer. When two Lapp men fight in earnest-and if they fight at all it is generally in earnest-the victor is apt to make a eunuch of his foe. Last week...
...Dealer Jonas is by no means the only person to discover that money can be made from the U. S. habit of paying fantastic prices in boom times, panic selling in lean years. Dealers in English furniture and antique silver have been shipping their best pieces back to London for over a year. A spokesman for Yamanaka & Co. said last week that three years ago there was scarcely an important Japanese print left in Japan. Wall Street collapsed, and Tokyo dealers began quietly to buy. Today, even with the collapse of the yen, rare Utamaros and Yeishis bring far more...
...jacket sleeves had been renounced. There was the gathering in the old stable beside Kelmscott House, where Wilde held forth. "I have never answered letters," he said, "I have known men come to London full of bright prospects, and seen them complete wrecks in a few months through a habit of answering letters." And again, "Mr. Bernard Shaw has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." And of course William Morris was there, and sometimes Shaw, and Russian anarchists, and socialists. With them was young Yeats who shortly before, while he attended the Killdare School had disliked George...
...movie is saved from being a complete waste of celluloid it is by the star and her director. No one who remembers the "Merry Widow" can quite forgive Von sternberg his recent perpetrations, but "use doth breed a habit in a man" and the director has not been able to discard his former habits of originality and his finesse, even though sloppy work is now the mode for Hollywood. He knows very well how to make a good shot, how to make five extra and Marlene Dietrich Paddling about in a property pound look like six syivan nymphs...