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Word: habits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...angle suggested by the answers he gets to his inquiries about newlyweds' problems and personalities. He broadcasts in constant terror of a scandalous answer, recalls with horror the girl who told the listening world that she had for months been trying to cure her fiance of the habit of smoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Listeners' Shows | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...tutorial is designed "to guide students in their respective fields, to assist them in coordinating the knowledge derived from other courses, and to stimulate them in the reading habit." Since a review of the elementary courses is all that is necessary to pass the general exam, the tutors do not go out of their way to corral their tutees, but if approached they are ready, willing, and competent to suggest and advise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Articles on Fields of Concentration | 5/27/1938 | See Source »

...plot of I Married An Angel has to do with Count Willy Palaffi (Dennis King), a Budapest banker who, swearing he will marry nothing less than an angel, is forthwith confronted by one (Vera Zorina), wings and all. They wed, but the bride's celestial habit of blurting out the truth stirs up a lot of trouble with the groom's friends and depositors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

President J. B. George of State Teachers College Hattiesburg, Miss., may occasionally run a practiced eye along the floors of the college halls. If he does, it is caused by force of habit that has lingered more than 20 years. In 1915 Freshman J. B. George modestly started his State Teachers College career in flurries of dust and dirt. He swept campus halls, dug up campus stumps, and hoped for nothing more from the college than a diploma thoroughly earned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Campus Laborer | 5/17/1938 | See Source »

Hero is Jig's pal, Shelly Bayliss, a man's man, though he has a queer habit of saving money, not drinking or chasing women. Heroine is Florabelle, beautiful, long-legged daughter of the ritzy, skinflint widow at whose house Jig and Shelly are boarders. Halfway through the book Author Haines begins feeding his melodrama all the voltage it will stand. At the climax -a big train wreck-Author Haines throws his switches in time to save his hero & heroine for a wedding, but not soon enough to save his story from the unmistakable frying smell that goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Electrified Romance | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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