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Word: habitations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lineup today seems to be the one that will face the Crimson, but Coach Roper's habit of changing his plans at the last moment leaves the depositors in doubt. It is evident, however, that Caulkins has recovered from the injury he sustained in the Swarthmore game and will be able to play Saturday...

Author: By Crimson STAFF Correspondent, | Title: The Tiger Prepares | 11/5/1925 | See Source »

...without irritation, occasionally look up an unknown word ; I can worry along with your habit of referring to little-known persons by their vocational epithets - but a reference to Keats as "Poet" John Keats seems an insult to tho intelligence of your readers if not to the fame of one of the world's great spirits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 26, 1925 | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

...tutor has an unrivalled opportunity to cultivate in the student the habit of reading good books. This is a declining practice these days; the public rears newspapers or magazines or the novels of the day, but more often it does not read at all; it looks at motion pictures, or it listens to the gramophone or the radio, or it occupies its leisure with action, such as driving or camping or dancing. If the college could enter a wedge into the customs of the country by instilling at least in the student the habit of reading good books, it would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEMOS WANTS TUTORS WORTHY OF THE NAME | 10/16/1925 | See Source »

When one sees people peering about in the halls and corridors of the small Algonquin Hotel, Manhattan, one may be almost sure that they are peeling their eyes for a glimpse of a literary lion or a theatrical celebrity. For there it is the habit of that kind of people to meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sister & Brother | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...Transcript editorial quoted in the adjacent column is as noteworthy as the subject which called it forth. Daily newspapers have the habit of burying educational topics at the tail end of their editorial procession. Like Abou Ben Adhem's name, this one led all the rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SINCERITY SINCERELY RECEIVED | 9/29/1925 | See Source »

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