Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approximately one million years human beings have lived in a physiological rhythm determined by day and night-that is, a rhythm of about 24 hours. So ingrained is this habit that a daily temperature cycle occurs, body heat being lowest (among people who normally sleep at night) in the early morning, highest in the early afternoon. Some time ago Physiologist Nathaniel Kleitman of the University of Chicago determined to find out whether the human mechanism could break away from this ages-old habit, adapt itself to a cycle of different length...
...American public and American newspapers are certainly creatures of habit. It is the warmest night I have ever seen in Washington. And yet this talk will be referred to as a 'fireside' talk...
Minks are famed for their ravenous appetites, their expensive pelts, their cannibalistic habit of devouring their young when frightened. Last week in Astoria, Ore., William and Emil Urell, operators of a mink farm, appeared before a board of officers from a nearby Coast Guard station, claimed the U. S. Coast Guard owed them $6,750 for damages. Right after the whelping season, they testified, a Coast Guard amphibian plane whizzed over their farm within 150 feet of the ground. The mother minks, terror-stricken by the drumming racket, dashed wildly about the cages, seized their 270 mink kittens, gobbled them...
...acquaintance be forgot . . . loved ones be left to wait and wonder-all because you neglected to write a letter? Somewhere someone is waiting for your letter-waiting to say "I love you too" or "Yes, we have a job for you." Write a letter. . . . It's a habit well worth cultivating, for every letter that you write, is "Very truly yours...
...Habit. Most Britons, however, were ready to concede victory to any member of the U. S. team because of the team's disturbing habit of taking home the British Amateur trophy almost every time it has come to Great Britain. Jess Sweetser did it in 1926, Bobby Jones in 1930, Lawson Little in 1934. With this unpleasant precedent in mind, a British sportswriter said he hoped the sight of the black & white shoes and the southern drawls of the U. S. players would not send the British scores zooming into the 80s as they had done three times before...