Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WHEREAS, Said newspapers have the habit of publishing the names and addresses of unfortunate women and girls who are the innocent victims of criminals; Therefore...
President Hopkins emphasized the idea that the purpose of college education is to inculate the principle of service in young people, and to give them the habit of purposeful thought. "Many students in college have never had the experience of sitting down and thinking until a result is achieved", he said, prefacing this remark with a statement that some students might consider college the best practice in the world for taking life easily...
...speaker said that the scientific method was just as applicable to the social as to the natural sciences and that in applying this principle the college should give young men open minds with the habit of independent investigation of religious and political problems. "Is the college going to produce the attitude which shall make us humble in the presence of new facts and make us weigh them carefully?" he asked...
...Napoleon; a man will liverish fancy man will himself be seized with morbid visions and filled with horror and dismay. About half to one hour is necessary for the opium to take effect and cause slumber from which the consumer awakes exhausted, pensive and melancholy. The drug is dangerously habit-forming and becomes so necessary to the addict that he cannot live without a regular supply...
...nominally above that of the African slaves, his coworkers. Again he escaped to a ship in Norfolk Harbor, which proved unfortunately to be herself a slaver. The captain, happily, was his kinsman. Thus, David Scott rose to be a captain in the slave trade, rum and the force of habit hardening him to his task. Little by little he is brought in the end to see the light and realize the iniquitous character of his way of life. A da capo climax brings him back to the Virginia tobacco fields...