Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...construction for the Allied armies, leaving Cromie with power-of-attorney to run the paper. From that status, Cromie emerged as owner. Nearly his first act was to absorb the conservative News-Advertiser, only morning competitor. Because he was without newspaper knowledge, Publisher Cromie was unbound by tradition or habit. He has made the paper as he went along, made mistakes, done surprising things. Personable, affable...
...least may survive. Perhaps the cause may be found in that traditional characteristic of indifference which is said to be inherent in all students at this college. When there is no actual motive for trading haymakers with somebody, especially if you do not know him, an already acquired habit of indifference is likely to act as a double deterrent. This is particularly true if you suspect that you are being recruited as cannon-fodder for some fast-stepping varsity cauliflower vender...
TIME'S habit is hereby broken...
Gary Cooper is at his best here as a carefree Legionnaire with the usual forgotten or unmentioned past. His habit of underacting is prominent, leaving a great deal to the audience, especially when Marlene Dietrich is in the same scene. These two are constantly leading the audience towards an intellectual understanding of the actors' emotions, and not pandering to their visionary sense alone...
...Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Professor Huxley complimented the Bostonians on their century's work, emphasized the need for instructing the public in natural history. To illustrate how interested laymen are in animals, he said that in a radio address he had mentioned the strange habit English sparrows have of pecking at crocuses in some districts, spurning them in others. Shortly after he received letters from 200 people giving him information on the sparrow-crocus problem...