Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monday, however, the startling results of the Roselle survey were made public. This study seems to have proven that the video habit is actually lowering students' grades, as much as 15 percent at Roselle's Abraham Clark High School. (Although the Roselle survey parallels almost exactly the Stamford study, the New Jersey investigators have been the first to correlate grades with the TV habit...
Coach Dick Vaughan's Princeton sextet, which has a habit of shooting the puck ahead and then scrambling for it, reached its peak at the Dartmouth winter carnival when it topped the Green, 8 to 5. Since that time the Tigers have had to settle for victories over local Jersey schools while losing the big ones to BU, Harvard, and Yale...
Neither the Wrights, the king's messenger nor the messenger's guard saw Karpe return to Compartment ll. "I would have seen him," said the guard later. "I kept the door of my compartment open purposely to watch the girls pass by-it's an old habit...
...young man follows flags that stream; In middle age he finds them dream. In older ages every zest Is but a habit sick for rest...
...himself at Oxford. It is unlikely that he will follow again in the future either the flags of his youth or the dreams of his middle age, but the zest that once stirred Masefield can still find counterpart in his readers even if theirs is also pretty much just habit...