Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course there are only two basic ideas about liquor, wet and dry. If anyone expected the Anti-Saloon League to change its fundamental idea" that intoxicating beverages are harmful, dangerous and habit-forming, and therefore the traffic therein should be suppressed, they were of course disappointed. As for new ideas about how to advocate the cause of sobriety TIME itself referred to the new songs introduced at St. Louis, and the press associations considered the plan of home talent dramas developed by the Anti-Saloon League sufficiently new to give the story nationwide circulation. Also there was the new idea...
Does TIME [Jan. 6] err on p. 11: "... the Frazier-Lemke bill for paying off farm mortgages with $3,000,000 in greenbacks"? If so, can we accuse our favorite newsorgan of falling into the New Deal habit of treating lightly those all-important ciphers which turn millions into billions...
Most modern U. S. Presidents sooner or later fall into the habit of comparing themselves, directly or obliquely, with one of their greater predecessors in office. In 1931 Herbert Hoover went to Valley Forge to deliver a George Washington address. When he got through, the Press had the distinct impression that the 31st President was thinking of himself and his troubles in terms of the First President, that the noble general who shivered at the Valley Forge of the Revolution and the great engineer who was then shivering at the Valley Forge of the Depression, were really...
...Being chiefly restricted to lecture material, they often require very little reading. The subject matter is apt to be so well tabulated by the lecturer that the student in preparing for the examination becomes unaccustomed to organizing and thinking about his material for himself. Furthermore, courses sometimes engender the habit of regarding an artificially delimited portion of a field to the exclusion of related subjects. All these factors which check the influence of the general examination are said to have been greatly altered by recent reductions in course requirements. As to this, only those close to tutorial instruction are qualified...
...Aziz & Son more than 50 times in the past ten years. Conniving with the police, one member of the firm crooked its books to conceal many of the thefts. As Canadian Justice got busy last week, the falsifier was jailed and 25 constables accused of having been in the habit of breaking into stores on their Toronto beats were suspended from their police duties without...