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Word: habitations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been able to quench. The end of the second term is in sight, and with this consummation comes that added element of freedom which has been a shining beacon amid the trials and terrors of John A. Hancock, Ensign, S.C., (symbol number 58-977, by force of habit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lucky Bag | 5/19/1944 | See Source »

...Small Habit. In Chicago, Mrs. Kate Poshwinchuk, well satisfied with the police work following her emergency phone call of a year ago, phoned again, was delivered of another baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 8, 1944 | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

Impressively consistent about sacrificing breakfast for bed in the morning (and who wouldn't) is the Potler-Price-Provost trio who fall out right after formation. The habit spreads...

Author: By Mids A. E. wulffaert, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 4/14/1944 | See Source »

Father (Frederick H.) Sill, founder and headmaster emeritus of Connecticut's Kent School, celebrated his 70th birthday reading congratulatory letters from alumni to their beloved "Pater," wore as usual the monastic habit (called by the schoolboys "the great white tent") of the Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fathers | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

Either the College was puritanical in those days or the local cafeterias were a far cry from the genteel Georgian and Hayes-Bick. Earlier College laws would indicate the former to be the case. For example, in 1655 students were required to"... weare modest and sober habit without strange, ruffian-like, or new-angled fashions, without lavish dresse for any excesses of aparal whatever," and they could not ".... weare long haire, locks or foretopps ..." nor indulge in the "... curling, crisping, parting or powdering their haire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARLY UNIVERSITY RULES SHOW PURITANICAL BENT | 3/17/1944 | See Source »

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