Word: habited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wetting the bed after he is three years old is a habit no child should have.** Yet a tremendous number of children suffer from enuresis. Adenoids, flat feet, thyroid deficiencies and a score more reasons have been presented to explain bedwetting. Dr. Kanner says it is almost always due simply to lack of adequate training, general carelessness concerning the regularity of the child's habits. To cure a child of wetting the bed Dr. Kanner simply tells him that he can be cured, that he should not be ashamed, that he should help with all his might. Almost invariably children...
Babies have been born sucking their thumbs and the habit during the first two years of a child's life is no cause for alarm, provided the baby is healthy and well-developed. Thumbguards, says Dr. Kanner, do not break a child of thumbsucking. He will stop the habit if he has toys and other children to play with...
...made Circulation a fetish. Hiring & firing one circulation manager after another, he finally took over the job himself. He found subscription accounts two, three, four years past due, weeded them out, put the paper on a cash-in-advance basis. On the theory that men & women are creatures of habit, he concentrated on the problem of getting the Register to them on time. Helped by his oldtime experience as an overland mail contractor. Publisher Cowles studied maps and railroad timetables, learned the location of every town and hamlet in Iowa, memorized the schedules of every train out of Des Moines...
...diseases discovered by the medico-advertising departments of U. S. business (TIME, May 27) - Brand Habit, the insidiousness of which is explained by those good souls who torture the air waves on behalf of Kentucky Winners cigarets...
Centuries ago British members of Parliament were occasionally given to the regrettable practice of pointing their arguments with their rapiers. To check the habit two red lines were drawn down the centre of the House of Commons about six feet, or two sword lengths, apart. When Sir Charles Barry's present Victorian Parliament building was erected (1840-50), strips of red carpet before the Government and Opposition benches took the place of the original red lines, and to this day no member may step off the carpet while addressing the House...