Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee found that most scholarships were either raised or lowered $200-300. As Monro says, "We moved up the stipends of the needy at the expense of those men relatively well off. How important is this? Terribly important, if we gave a very needy student, out of old habit a $600 scholarship when he really needs $800 it may be very hard for him indeed. It leads him perhaps, to work 25-30 hour's a weeks for wages, sacrificing academic work, extra-curricular activities, even his health in the desperate effort to cope with a financial problem we have...
...came to Harvard at the age of 27. He was appointed a full professor a year later in 1930, the youngest man ever given such a rank at Harvard. Nock is not sure why he came to America or why he stayed on at Harvard. "Life has a habit of making decisions for you. You hesitate and then you just do a thing...
...foreseen. It is possible for man to descend into the sea depths using means created by him. The problem is to overcome physical obstacles by using physical principles." He had not felt, he made clear, that he was running much risk. "Everyone," he remarked, "is in the habit of trusting a railway bridge. We trust the eternal laws of physics...
...well as that." He proceeded to teach her a good deal of his own almost cruelly precise draftsmanship, which has never been surpassed for subtlety. Other impressionists-Manet, Monet et al. -followed Degas' lead in drawing Painter Cassatt into their sunlit circle. From them she got the habit of subordinating form, space and texture to the pure play of light, and of giving her pictures a modest, if contrived, sketchiness...
Since he founded Hygrade in 1914, with a stake of $15,000, Slotkin has made a habit of buying up rivals. He started with a simple principle: the best way to sell frankfurters was to make their contents a known quantity-pure beef-and to package them under a known brand name. This idea soon gave him a commanding hold on the New York hot-dog market. By 1929, hungry for expansion, he was ready to move into Chicago, where big Allied Packers was on the "block...