Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anglican (or Episcopalian) deaconess is not a female deacon. She may not read Morning or Evening Prayer, or preach, which a deacon can do. Like a lay sister, she wears a habit, assists the parish priest in educational and social-service work...
...Navy's habit of secrecy had suppressed the names of the ground commanders on Saipan although the fighting outfits had been identified early in the battle. Last week the Navy completed the record, added some familiar names to the Saipan story...
Monty has come a long way in the five years since he was a studious, all but unknown staff-college instructor, with a lieutenant colonel's crown-and-pip on his shoulders and an insufferable habit of talking down to his classes. But he was then what he is now, a completely dedicated professional, soldier, with a superb sense of the big things of war, and an utter contempt for the small...
...most of Mr. Morgenthau's error lay in the habit of overestimating the magnitude, enormous though it is, of the Treasury's problem. All last year he pleaded with Congress to pass at least a $10,500,000,000 tax bill. President Roosevelt urged the same thing; and Wendell Willkie topped them both with a demand for a $16,000,000,000 tax bill. In arguing for heavier taxes, they were all on the side of the angels, in that they were trying to sop up inflationary spending. But Mr. Morgenthau torpedoed his own argument by garbling...
Joseph Barondess, one of the Founding Fathers (in 1900) of the I.L.G.W.U. A Russian-born Jew, the son of a family of rabbis, Barondess endeared himself to needle trades proletarians by his "golden voice," "hypnotic powers over an audience," his habit of "quoting the Bible in the manner of a cultivated freethinker." He spent "the last decade of his life as an insurance agent, selling policies to the workers in the needle trades...