Word: habited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday-School contest for memorizers of Bible verses by rattling them off by the chapter after one reading. Years later the members of a Neighborhood Club in Belmont, Mass., who met weekly to hear a paper by one of their number, were nonplussed by Member Pound's habit of arising after each paper, no matter what the subject, to give a more authoritative treatment. His particular interests are botany, Freemasonry, military history of the Civil...
...MacBride, however, this does not show that habits acquired by an individual in adapting itself to new circumstances may not be inherited. Lately he reported on habit transmission in the British stick-insect. This creature feeds exclusively on privet, but on the verge of starvation will eat ivy. Dr. MacBride and his associates starved a number of the insects until they ate ivy, then tested succeeding generations. Of the parents only 10% would eat ivy in the first two days, but 80% of the offspring ate it in the same period, although they were isolated from birth and hence removed...
Said Dr. MacBride last week: "If a parent acquired a habit after long and painful trials, his child will acquire the habit, not at birth, but after fewer trials. If that is true the whole problem of evolution is solved...
...Louis Lively, mulatto brush-maker who had the habit of cutting little girls' throats, was trapped when Detective Parker noted that Lively always used the same type of false tips to mislead police...
There are, however, people who continue to bleed at the nose despite all procedures and medication. The bleeding is a lifelong habit with them. A cold or a cough is enough to start their noses running blood. The epistaxis goes on for hours, days...