Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...human, a man of middle size with a stooping back and a long face, a prominent nose and with brows which grew together so that those who saw him would get frightened, with very little hair and having in the middle of his forehead a sign, according to the habit of the Nazarenes. His looks were quite simple, only his pose was more than human because he performed wonders through some invisible power...
Every May it reappears on professors lips. But after stating in cold blood that they are required to cover the whole course with their final test, the instructors proceed to exhibit the ingenuity with which they are in the habit of rendering the requirement innocuous. Most often they leave the matter with the statement that students need only review the outline of the first semester's work; and on the examination day the students are delighted to find that even that was unnecessary. Many other professors, however, circumvent the rule by designating with exactness what section of the work before...
...habit once established has a fair chance of invading the graduate's realm, always provided the elements of comfort are supplied. Both in college and out, a vital connection exists between cultural conversation and the baser materials of life...
...There he became intimate with one Charles B. Thomas, who had been a local judge. The eastern Illinois district was not entirely civilized? the Herrin massacres soon happened. Rough ways, rough words were not unknown. Money was made, lost, quickly, loosely. Judge English became careless. He got into the habit of assigning lucrative bankruptcy cases to his good friend, Mr. Thomas. In court he was heard, allegedly, to curse, to refer to a man as a?. Slipshod, he never got rich, but when he needed money to pay for an automobile, Friend Thomas provided it. Enemies, easily and multitudinously created...
Before the new Viceroy many another potentate must bow: the Maharaja of Mysore, known as the most progressive of Indian rulers; the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, better known as "Mr. A."; the Maharaja of Patiala, whose habit it is to attend European social functions literally swathed in pearls. . . . All these sovereigns, by a sublime irony, are now under the benevolent tutelage of a gentleman who was known until a month ago merely as the Rt. Hon. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood...