Word: habitation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past to look into the future. First, he finds that the cost of high pressure distribution is beginning to offset the saving of mass productions. In the second place, mass production is threatened by hand-to-mouth buying, fostered by the need for rapid distribution and the consequently developed habit of rapid "style-change". And in the third place, Mr. Mazur sees danger to our prosperity from a change in the European trade balance...
...recently discovered great causeway running southward from Coba past Lake Xkanha, this road seems part of a great Mayan passage towards Ixil. At the road's end is a flight of stone steps going up a dilapidated pyramid 70 feet high. At its top Mayan priests had the habit of tearing the hearts from living human sacrifices, of offering the warm and bloody things to an idol, and of heaving the maimed bodies into a ravine close by. There seemed a fell malison on this spot which the Mason-Blodgett troupe had found. Their muleteers ran fearfully away, carrying...
...ever have the habit of twitching your face, neck or shoulders...
...Senate in which he was not permitted to sit. The "better element" and all the Chicago newspapers (except the two Hearst papers) say the Thompson-Crowe-Small-Smith faction is vile, vicious, responsible for Chicago's maladies. But, curiously enough, the maligned fellows have a habit of winning elections. It does not matter that, in 1924, Mr. Crowe called his present ally, Mayor Thompson, "the worst political derelict pestering Chicago." Nor does it matter that Senator Deneen was the good friend of Mr. Smith when the latter was trying to get into the Senate. Now Senator Deneen is supporting...
...most notable living family of twins in the U. S. was produced by Mrs. Andrew Koger of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and her husband, Andrew Koger, carpenter. They have four sets of twins healthy and growing, named, according to the unfortunate habit of emphasizing the abnormality of twinship by imposing artificial likenesses, Clyde, Claude, Addie, Abbie, Floyd, Lloyd, Jean and Jeannette...