Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people into the air," most air transport lines cut their fares sharply at the beginning of the year (TIME, Feb. 10). About six months later, judging they had gone far toward promoting the flying habit, the operators upped their rates again. How well the first stage of their plan succeeded was shown last week in a report for January-June by the Department of Commerce...
...more difficult obstacle. Since Massachusetts over a century ago instituted the general practice of gerrymandering, a strategic system whereby the party in office arranges the sections in such a manner that the voting power results in abnormal splits which always favors its own candidates, the thing has become a habit despite gentle dissuasion by more idealistic elements...
...Geneva for the seventh time is The League of Nations Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference. Once upon a time what they sought was "disarmament," but last week Dutch Chairman Jonkheer Dr. J. Loudon opened the session with these words: "We must ask the public to break its habit of referring to disarmament in connection with our work. What we are dealing with is only the reduction and limitation of armaments. Absolute disarmament remains an ideal the realization of which is scarcely conceivable in the present political and moral situation of the world." President Hoover was represented last week...
...attack, verbal and physical, on the Cuban government, European students as a whole have taken an interest in radical revolutions. But here in America the student sleeps in Old World dormitories and lets the New World go by. The politicians and the press have been in the habit of terming college students radical, but nothing could be further from the truth. The Harvard undergraduate body has been completely a stand-patter...
...Lama of Tibet, declared the Morrow butler perfumes the Morrow soupspoon. Nominee Morrow meets these attacks with such sweet reasonableness as: "It's not at all unnatural for the political party out of power to blame bad times on the political party in power. Conversely it is the habit of the party in power during a period of prosperity to take credit for good times whether they have had anything to do with...