Word: habitant
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Harvard's erratic basketball team, which pursued a policy last year of upsetting Eastern League leaders at unexpected intervals, developed that habit again Saturday night at the expense of Princeton. Beaten in four straight games in the current race, the Crimson turned the trick by holding the Tigers to just nine points during the second half. The final score was 36 to 32, whereas the losers' half-time margin had been...
...peered into the dark mail box just out of habit. "Never any on Sunday," he murmured as be bumped into a middle-aged tutor on his way upstairs. He flung open the door of Bob's room, but the "hello" died on his lips as the unexpected darkness blinded him. He stumbled against a hard wood chair where there shouldn't have been one and flicked the light switch...
Unable to break a long standing habit, Powell works mostly at night, most of the time flat on his back because he is still too weak to sit up more than an hour a day. One night he almost suffered a serious eye injury when a heavy book fell from his hands as he dozed...
...took a really veteran Western Union messenger boy, Russel T. Mann, who has been at his job since early 1939, to remember that people in prewar days had the tipping habit. "Hell, we never get any now," said a young and disgusted bicycle courrier...
...radio performers have made more broadcasts. They were radio's first great national program. They were the chief instigators of the habit of listening to a fixed program night after night. They were the great American institution of blackface comedy at its greatest spread and financial return. Their droll dramatizations, a blend of simple narrative interest and skillful characterization, caught the Negro attitude and idiom without burlesque...