Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cathartic Habit. . .Fleischmann's Yeast...
Head-First Habit Sirs...
...lines or social distinction, as it applies in nearly as great force to the student body. Furthermore, it would be hard for anyone at all to be a Lord Chesterfield on a salary or some twelve dollars a week. Yet that small extra effort, which soon becomes an unconscious habit, of politeness is one of the features that distinguish civilized urbanity from the frontier, and make a pleasure out of the process of living...
Device for Preventing Dog Nuisance consists of an electrical grille. "When, therefore, the device has been placed in position in front of a building, or the like, where dogs have been in the habit of committing a nuisance, the next one that attempts the act, will receive a severe shock ... by reason of the grounding of the current through the dog's body. After receiving one such shock it is believed that that particular locality will be shunned in the future by every dog so punished...
...mansions planned by Richard Hunt remain rich and beautiful. And although habit-bound Harvard students will continue to refer to the building by the traditional and strangely home-spun name. "Old Fogg," Richard Hunt deserves his new glory. May his name resound through all time from the pages of Harvard catalogues...