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Word: habited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marsupial Secrets.The female possum's habit of licking her pouch before giving birth is the source of what Dr. Hartman considers several preposterous possum legends. But for all its stupidity, the possum, in its sex life, is much like other mammals. After only 12½ days' gestation, the mother props herself into a sitting position and delivers a large litter of tiny (20 can fit into a teaspoon), wormlike young. Still little more than squirming, pink embryos, the baby possums clamber upward over their mother's soft, warm underbelly and into the pouch that opens and closes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Monstrous Beaste | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

...Percy Sillitoe, 64-year-old chief of Britain's famed M.I.5 (Secret Service), theorized that Red undercover agents keep in touch with the Mau Mau through a big Russian hospital in Addis Ababa. African patients get free medical treatment, courtesy of the Kremlin; afterwards, they have a curious habit of turning up in trouble spots all over Africa. Sir Percy's theory, if true, could plausibly explain the fact that Mau Mau agents have been caught infiltrating along the lower slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro into Tanganyika Territory, and that a Mau Mau-like society whose slogan is "Kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Slight Change for the Worse | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

Even as a teenager, George Sponsler of North Baltimore (pop. 2,771), Ohio was a prim, strait-laced little fellow. Like his older brother Orville, he stood 5 ft. 5, weighed just 120 Ibs. and had the family habit of sitting up straight on the edge of chairs. Both boys considered it a privilege and an honor to work for North Baltimore's little First National Bank. George swept out the lobby and polished the cuspidors every afternoon when he was in high school, and became a clerk as soon as he graduated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Conscientious Embezzler | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

Being gracious hosts is apparently a well-entrenched habit among TIME'S Atlantic Edition readers. Answers to the questionnaire show that they entertain an average of twelve guests each month in their homes. Not a few of these guests must walk out with slightly thumbed copies of TIME under their arms, because about two out of five readers reported that they pass their copies on to relatives or friends. Another 13% give their used copies to libraries, clubs and hospitals. And three readers wrote us that they turn in their used copies at the newsstand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 24, 1952 | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...statistics were compiled through the good offices of The Daily Dartmouth, which follows the habit of printing the names of every girl invited to the annual fall Houseparty weekend. The weekend fell on November 8 this autumn, and The Dartmouth, true to form, printed the names of all 1289 young women who were asked up to Hanover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Statistics Reveal 'Cliffe Low in House Party Invites | 11/20/1952 | See Source »

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