Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that fashion has in recent years greatly altered, and many believe for the worse. Yet it is fair to remember that if we are to turn to another system, there was in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, even in the earlier years of the nineteenth century, a custom or habit, even in some sort a ritual of dining in hall. This though less ancient than that in some of the English colleges and in some measure derived from theirs, (as theirs, it must be remembered was in turn derived from still older sources) has the advantage of tradition as "authentic...
...public utterances on this subject can find evidence of what is in fact the case, namely, a man with scientific and engineering training approaching the problem of increasing the assurance of peace; a mind of extraordinary power and penetration focussing itself, in the manner which is its normal lifetime habit, on the work of analyzing the problem in a scientific spirit, identifying the forces that make for peace and those that make for war, and estimating how the former may be so stimulated and directed as to prevail over the latter--in short, how to bring it about that...
...Hoover's reference to freedom of the seas in his Armistice Day speech. For what is commonly meant by freedom of the seas, Mr. Hoover has approval, as most statesmen have. On one point, within the broader field he is specific, and his being specific arises both from his habit of thinking in terms of forces and from his direct experience with food during the Great...
...Vagabond, always a hop, skip and jump ahead of his competitors--which may or may not account for his wandering predilections--is already casting a speculative eye toward the future. Not too far, for the matters of the moment have an unpleasant habit of intruding themselves between the time when he can again meander in a carefree manner over the well-greased boardwalks of the Yard to flounder at the feet of learning. And not too near. The genial scout too willingly holds close to his heart the vicissitudes of his young proteges these bleak days of January...
...into such crannies of knowledge is the habit of the American Historical Society. The members met last week at Duke University (Durham, N. C.). Their president for 1930: Japan-born Evarts Boutell Greene, De Witt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia, eminent authority on colonial times, author (Provincial America, Government of Illinois...