Word: habitation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...episodes from Old Testament narrative-Jonah and his voyage in the whale, Methuselah and his ripe old age, Belshazzar and his feast-were ranked by Dr. Gore and his more than 50 collaborators as no more than Hebrew Nights' Entertainments. .They were explained as "products of the Semitic habit of exaggeration...
...coat un buttoned, cigar in mouth. Immediately the hero was deluged with boxes of cigars -10,000 in quick order - and though he gave hundreds away, "having such a quantity on hand I naturally smoked more than I would have done under ordinary circumstances, and I have continued the habit ever since...
...graduate school and the Y. M. C. A. Such gentle urging as may be included in a two-a-week requirement will do much to establish a beaten path to a strange door, which once found will be reached in subsequent years through the automatic agency of habit...
...sure methods than an iterative attendance at eight o'clock dinners and prolonged sessions given over life dance, whose monotonous four-four rhythm, often known as "common time", is only seldom relieved by the equally hackneyed three-four of the waltz. But from this very sameness is inculcated a habit from which the plastic age finds it hard to depart Parties become not only more frequent but more lengthy and the rigid two o'clock closing rule of three years ago has been honored during the present season by breaches of from one to three hours...
...Louis. The press acquired a habit of comparing the popular demonstrations accorded Nominee Smith to the Lindbergh demonstrations of last year. The Smith demonstration in St. Louis was "practically as great" as Lindbergh's. Beer and the Brown Derby seemed to be the chief attractions...