Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Habit. Pulque, compounded of fermented cactus juice from a Mexican century plant, is a malodorous, milky-looking sour liquid which sells for ten centavos (2?) a liter, is swished down by low-class Mexicans as a substitute for water, which in Mexico is scant and bad. Some scientists believe that pulque's yeast and vitamins offset the unbalanced diet of chili, corn and beans, act as a counterirritant to hot peppers. But that is the best that can be said for it. Its production is unsanitary. Its sale is in filthy, squalid pubs. Its consumption produces a stumbling goofiness...
...well-mannered Berkshire School, the students talk increasingly with their hands. They all have the air-talk habit. A handsome New England prep school at Sheffield, Mass., Berkshire this year generated unwonted zip in its student body by teaching them to fly as a regular part of the curriculum. This week 40 fledglings in this pioneering airprep school were agog over the first of their number to take his test for a pilot's license. With 35 hours of soloing, 17-year-old James D. Geier of Cincinnati had beaten out his headmaster. Headmaster Albert Keep still has only...
Bowser College, as you know, is a great University in the west. It is a very famous school, and people from all over the country know it and send their children there. People who like Bowser also have the habit of dying and leaving their money to the school, with the result that Bowser is a very rich college indeed...
...Those who have wrongly assumed that Mr. Roosevelt is a spotless knight-errant of progressivism have acquired the habit of blaming subordinates for actions which they dislike. ... As a matter of fact the President is personally responsible for more that goes on in his administration than those friendly critics often suspect. . . . Foreign policy [is] an example. . . . The concessions of his administration to expediency in foreign affairs might have been expected in view of similar concessions in domestic affairs...
Goodspeed now lives in Bel-Air, near the University of California, where he has been lecturing on his pet subject. He still clings to his habit of reading detective stories. He once wrote a readable one: Curse in the Colophon...