Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Westernization. The King of Kings combines his knowledge of time-honored Iranian political methods with a passion for reform and an incorrigible interest in blue prints. Despiser of meddling, dictating European governments, he nevertheless admires Western habits and dress, Western technical achievements. Just as Kamal Atatürk had ordained in Turkey a few years before, Reza Shah Pahlavi ordered jail sentences for turban-wearers, forbade veils for Iranian women. Robed, turbaned mullahs were obliged to carry licenses. The Iranian habit of contracting temporary marriages, sanctioned by the Shiah sect of Mohammedanism, was so curtailed by the Shah that polygamy...
...situation is not prepossessing, but the elaboration of the angel's initiation into the vanities and the compromises of the world, proves quite amusing. The angel has taken it from Mr. Keats that beauty is truth and vice-yersa, and so she has to be cured of the habit of absolute honesty, at least so far as social amenities are concerned...
...reckoning looms. The routine of frantic review, late hours, neglect of exercise, tension, gloom, and the search for stimulants is a familiar if unwelcome specter. And the search for stimulants has not been fruitless. Last spring the resort to benzedrine was momentarily popular until "debunked" as habit-forming. This spring the answer seems to be caffein pills, which, it is claimed, are some ambrosian and utopian pick-me-ups which do every thing they should do, and nothing they should...
Emotions affect the skin by first disturbing the sympathetic nervous system, then the blood vessels, muscles and nutrition of the skin itself. The reaction is a kind of bad habit, according to Dr. Bernstein, and hard to break. One of his patients, whom he cites as example, broke out in hives every time she recalled the time a burglar robbed her bedroom. Bleeding of the hands, feet, chest and forehead of religious ecstatics, corresponding to the Crucifixion wounds, are the result of hysteria, writes Dr. Bernstein, and "represent an identification with Christ on the part of the patient." Another...
...evening walking around Manhattan's Bryant Park with an old friend debating whether he and Editor Hadden could afford to raise their own salaries to $50 a week (their writers already were paid more). He decided they would be justified in doing it. But so ingrained was the habit of plowing back profits into the improvement of the magazine that not until 1929 (circulation: 243,400) could enough money be spared to pay the first dividend on the preferred stock. None was paid on common stock until 1930. By then TIME'S loyal family of readers numbered...