Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inability to hit when men were on bases and a habit of making errors in the crucial moments paved the way for a 7 to 3 defeat for the Freshman nine on Saturday. The punch that marked the Huntington game last week was lacking against Dean Academy and Gate's steady pitching was offset by his bad support...
...this distance since 1901, and over any distance since 1916. But as the four University milers, Chapin, Tibbetts, Cutcheon, and Watters, romped through the distance to an easy victory over crack teams from Cornell, Columbia, Georgetown, Penn, and B. C., it seemed as if they had been in the habit of pulling down intercollegiate championships for years...
...Cortissoz answered, "for education rests entirely in the individual. It is wholly in his power to cultivate his mind and imagination or not. It is true, however, that Englishmen graduate from their colleges really educated. They learn from what I call the habit of mind, but only because the tradition of learning in English colleges is deeper than here. I am strongly in favor of a purely elective system of education, where the student is given a great deal of freedom...
Pavlowa is in the habit of reaping scintillant appreciations of this nature. She has just returned from a deliriously successful tour of the Near and Far East, and is again invading our cities with Oriental novelties, chiefly Russian, of course...
Every morning the first thing when he gets up--for the process of daily rising has settled on him like a habit--P. G. Wodehouse goes to the door and looks for the milk bottle which he left out for his daily supply of humor. Sometimes the humor is richer than other times. One morning not so long ago he found the humor in the bottle very rich indeed; solid cream; turn it upside down if you don't believe it. So then he sat down and took the cream out in spoonfuls and put it all into the book...