Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...criticisms might have been worse; for General Caldwell admits that it was found advisable "to omit some passages" because the Field Marshal was "so outspoken." And this capacity for plain, frank statements was occompanied by a no less marked habit of blunt, crude speech, so much so that General Caldwell says that "it has been thought desirable to exclude some forcible expressions concerning individuals which find a place in these records...
...ninth, the Yankees put three men on base with no one out. Then John Miljus, Pittsburgh pitcher, struck out Batters Gehrig and Meusel and had one strike on Batter Lazzeri. Even the New York crowd almost wished that Pitcher Miljus would throw two more strikes. But the error habit was too well established. Pitcher Miljus threw the ball far from the plate and Catcher Gooch cuffed but could not stop it. It rolled to the grandstand while Base Runner Combs ran in (he could almost have walked in) with the generous Pirates' parting gift. Thus, flatly, anticlimactically, ended the World...
...their height runs from 200 to 300 feet. It was calculated that there are usually some 100,000 tons of ice above the water, and since the bergs ride about seven-eights under water, the total weight of each is about 800,000 tons. Icebergs have a most mystifying habit of seeking cold pockets in the ocean. When a berg is traveling South at its serene and prescribed rate of half a knot an hour, it will suddenly change its course and will head direct for the only cold pocket within many miles. This is known to the experts...
...depend on them to defend its glory on the gridiron. Those exercisers of lung and finger carry the Crimson standard high as they parade through the goalposts--before the game--and again when they return courtesy for courtesy between the halves. Only one really pernicious habit has cropped out in the Harvard Band. It made its first appearance in the Princeton game last year, when, after the Harvard supporters had listened patiently to songs for old Nassau, my boys, and were aching for a chance to show their contempt for the whole proceedings by singing of the things they were...
...Communist party) considerably outnumber the Pilsudski forces. They introduced a number of motions forbidden by Dictator Pilsudski, chief of which was a motion of lack of confidence in him. Had they succeeded in winning the motion, it would doubtless have done them no good; for Dictators have an irritating habit of putting themselves above the law. Still, it would have done Pilsudski small good had he been forced to ride roughshod over their veto. To avoid all such unpleasantness, he issued a decree closing the Sejm...