Word: habitation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clear the patient's mind of fear, and in favorable subjects to induce a definite anaesthesia so that no pain was felt (TIME, Nov. 14). Almost any willing subject can be hypnotized, but the best patients are those already suffering from some mental or physical shock, or some habit which has already weakened their resistance. Hypnotism is a process of mental dissociation during which all activity is quiescent; no desire, no antagonism, no conflict. In this condition any suggestion registers powerfully and will be carried into action either at the moment, or after the hypnosis is over and forgotten, according...
...buildings and presses; the rest is good-will (of readers and advertisers). Indeed, a cautious investor might be alarmed if he asked himself the question: "How do I know definitely that anyone is going to buy this newspaper tomorrow or that anyone is going to advertise in it?" Habit and a good name are the only answers that a newspaper can give the investor. These answers evidently inspire confidence, for reputable newspaper bonds are being sold with almost as low a rate of interest as high-grade industrial bonds. Scarcely a week passes without the appearance of some journalistic bond...
Author Vestal finds Kit a bit tiresome. Readers will find Author Vestal tiresome for too much apologizing. Kit had courage, needs no excuses. Author Vestal also has an irritating habit of breaking into an Indian war cry, "Wagh...
Just to say have had two copies of TIME weekly since my renewal in January. Evidently due to slight difference in address. No objection on my part, as have passed extra copy on to local businessmen with recommendation that they make TIME a habit. On such suggestion I know of three more copies coming to Carey weekly-more will follow...
...superficial courses, their poor preparation for college. Said President Lowell: "The saying that there are many ways of killing a cat besides choking it with butter can be applied to American schools in more than one sense. . . . What we need is a good mental training, an accurate and thorough habit of mind, not a frittering away of the attention by a multitude of small matters of which the pupil does not get enough to develop consecutive thought. Too much attention has been paid to making education attractive by smoothing the path as compared with inducing strenuous voluntary effort...