Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early interest in radio gave the club a great start. It grew both in members and fame until hams the world over make a habit of "copying" it regularly. In the fall of 1925, the club established contact with members of the Geographical Institute who were engaged in a trail-breaking exploration of the Amazson wilds. For week, they relayed messages through W1AF, keeping touch with friends and reporting on their progress...
...Best and simplest reasons for France's sniffy reception of Coca-Cola are: 1) wine in France is cheaper . . . and is a long-ingrained national habit; 2) no Frenchman likes to be strong-armed into things, not even by the U.S. State Department...
Possible Preventive. As extra insurance, doctors are getting more & more into the habit of calling in specialists as consultants. It costs the patient money, but the consultant makes a fine witness for the defense. Doctors are also ordering more diagnostic procedures, especially X rays. Such devices, along with the higher insurance premiums, force up the cost of medical care to all Angelenos, whether they suffer from lawyer's itch...
...discovered that the Flower Show "must not be advertised by pictorial posters or placards of an obscene nature" and further, that no person attending could "wear a head covering which obstructs the view of another spectator." Since it was not Sunday and as we are not in the habit of wearing hats, this did not alarm us particularly, and we went...
Last week, 47-year-old Arthur Stanley Talbott told the Los Angeles Advertising Club the results of his survey on "How to Open Women's Purses.." Certain words in ads and sales talks are "repulsive" to women, he said. Examples: habit, bra, leathery, sticky, parched, calisthenics, crust, matron, clingy, model. Good sales words, which "appeal to women's hearts, emotions and vanities": poise, charm, graciousness, dainty, twinkle, hope, blush, bloom, bachelor, crisp, fairness, garden...