Word: habitant
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Coach Dick Vaughan's Princeton sextet, which has a habit of shooting the puck ahead and then scrambling for it, reached its peak at the Dartmouth winter carnival when it topped the Green, 8 to 5. Since that time the Tigers have had to settle for victories over local Jersey schools while losing the big ones to BU, Harvard, and Yale...
Neither the Wrights, the king's messenger nor the messenger's guard saw Karpe return to Compartment ll. "I would have seen him," said the guard later. "I kept the door of my compartment open purposely to watch the girls pass by-it's an old habit...
...boss of the $57 million Atlas Corp., canny Floyd Bostwick Odium has made a habit of buying good properties at bargain prices', improving them, then selling out at a fat profit. Three years ago, he thought he saw a real bargain in Barnsdall Oil Co. Since Barnsdall had proven reserves of at least 140 million barrels of oil, each of Barnsdall's 2,223,307 shares of common stock was backed by roughly $120 worth of oil in the ground. Yet the stock was then selling around $30. Odium began buying large blocks of Barnsdall stock, by late...
...young man follows flags that stream; In middle age he finds them dream. In older ages every zest Is but a habit sick for rest...
...himself at Oxford. It is unlikely that he will follow again in the future either the flags of his youth or the dreams of his middle age, but the zest that once stirred Masefield can still find counterpart in his readers even if theirs is also pretty much just habit...