Word: habited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic and Republican Parties it is that the Democrats indulge in spontaneity. Freedom of speech and action are the Democracy's cardinal tenets. No leader is so small or obscure that he cannot pop up and make himself heard. Because the Party is individualistic and sectional, it has a habit of bursting into flame over principles and personalities. Where Republicans smother their differences in committee, Democrats fight theirs out in public. Where Republicans represent the People, Democrats are the People?noisy, emotional, opinionated. In conventions assembled they generate an atmosphere where almost anything can happen...
...will receive your money back many times, I am sure, and CBS will at least have the comfort of knowing that a lot of radios will once more arouse from a state of inactivity at least once a week, which may help to get them back in the habit...
...attempted, and which can, because it does not depend on poetry and fiction for all its material, maintain a consistently high standard for the poetry and fiction which it does print. For the Advocate editors to do this would be doubly difficult. They would have to ignore custom and habit, and build up a new reputation, perhaps losing much that is good in their old reputation. However, there is an excellent opportunity for a group of ambititious young men, who would take the whole University as their realm, who would be read by graduates and instructors, and be eager...
Clearly this was the match that would decide the championship. Both of them knew it. Mrs. Cheney, who makes a habit of not speaking to her opponents, wore a long rabbit's foot attached to her belt. Miss Wilson carried a shooting stick and sat on it, examining her man-sized shoes, while Mrs. Cheney played her shots. Good rolling approaches to greens that were too small and fast for niblick shots saved Mrs. Cheney three holes on the out nine; but Miss Wilson was outdriving her by 50 yards on nearly every hole. On the 14th, already...
...travel as a bridge over the depression is to bring any real advantages, be young avoiding the evil of overcrowding the professions, a new fashion for the "American in Paris" must be developed, and the Gershwin tradition abandoned: Americans, like the rude British, have been in the habit of carrying their bath-tubs and their customs with them in their peregrinations; serious study of foreign life can be made only if the traveler lays aside his attitudes, and adopts those of his hosts, as he adopts their language. When the American student is willing to do this perhaps he will...