Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some reason not altogether clear, it has been found desirable to reintroduce prohibition into the New York public schools, as a subject for study. From the age of six pupils are to be instructed in the art, science or habit of prohibition. It seems that an education law of twenty-five years ago first made provision that prohibition should play a part in the life of every school child, to the obvious and praiseworthy end that he might become an intelligent and sober minded citizen...
Since in the past certain fun-loving persons, yearning for the days "When pistols were fired up chimneys, when statues were painted, when free speech was exercised," have been in the habit of confining their firing, painting, and freely talking to one occasion per annum, the editors feel safe in assuring their readers of no further interruptions in their steady reading until about this time next year...
...schools try to accomplish too much and as a result achieve nothing well. "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...
...make education attractive, there has been of late a tendency to make it too easy. "Repeated mental exertion becomes a habit, one of the most valuable a man can possess. In fact the habit of overcoming obstacles is a large factor in the condition of mind that is properly called education; for the quantity of knowledge obtained when one leaves school is far less important than the ability to acquire knowledge and to think clearly on hard problems...
...cent production of 1926. Snuff, another inexpensive form of tobacco, likewise established a new high record with 40,154,792 pounds, an increase of 5.4%. The decline of 4.9% in production of the classification listed as "manufactured tobacco" is attributed to the passing of the tobacco chewing habit...