Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what is meant by "grande nation" or by "declaration d'independance". "Unabhangigkeitserklarung" is a decidedly more baffling symbol for the letter idea. Yet what, upon close attention, could be clearer? What joy is comparable to that of discovery? And what is more certainly the evidence of training than the habit of close attention? Linguistic discipline, like all discipline, is irksome; but like all discipline it is wholesome; and it is unique among disciplines in that it sharpens the instrument of them all, our ordinary means of communication. The trained mind distinguishes; the readiest way of distinguishing is through comparison...
...arrived when the embrace of an editor's chair was too constricting for powers and ambitions such as his ; that an audience of some 30,000 readers was hardly sufficient for the voice that he felt was in him. A long time now he had been in the habit of roaming over the country 'to lecture, now to business men, more often before educators...
...baseball team will try to get back into its habit of winning games this afternoon when it meets the St. John's Academy nine on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock. Today's game and that with Andover on Saturday are the only ones slated for the Freshmen before the annual contest with Yale and Coach Davidson is expecting a good showing this afternoon...
Barbee is again slated to take the mound against the visitors. He has worked in 11 of the games to date and has demonstrated such a remarkable brand of pitching that playing twice 3 week has come to be a habit. His only setback came in the contest with Worcester at Worcester in which the school team took advantage of two hits to win by a 1 to 0 score...
...other side of the picture becomes less inviting when it becomes obvious that the opium habit is destined to spread amazingly under the stimulus of cheapened drugs. To believe that the future manufacturer of opium will be more amenable to government control than the present poppy farmer is highly optimistic. A vested interest of the West will merely replace a vested interest of the East...