Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broad jumpers, Coach Farrell has Eddie Calvin and Milt Green, either of whom is good for 23 feet, and Green has formed the habit of winning all hurdle races from 45 yards to 110 meters, so that he may finish the meet with wins in broad jump and two hurdle races...
...days later, no Great Power having protested, sap of courage rose in the Schuschnigg Cabinet. For the first time since the War, they boldly revived Kaiser Franz Josef's habit of ordering on a given day "spring parades" of all his troops in every provincial capital of Imperial Austria...
...they must be by law, the monarchs of Sweden were interested in the house because there, in 1373, died a great and pious Swedish woman, St. Bridget. In the chapel they viewed relics of the founder of the Brigittine Order. Then Queen Victoria spied a nun in a habit different from those of the barefoot Carmelites who occupied the house. She spoke to her, was surprised when the nun replied in Swedish. Further surprised were Gustaf and Victoria to learn that the nun, named Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad, was working to rebuild the Brigittine Order...
...Belmont Park, where her father has been famed for 25 years as a trainer of racehorses for people like Bernard Mannes Baruch, Herbert Bayard Swope and Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt. Mary Hirsch as a small girl made a habit of keeping trainers' hours. She got up at dawn to watch the workouts, helped her father's stablemen feed the horses, grew to know as much about such matters as Max Hirsch himself. In 1931, when she finished school...
...Jockey Club stewards and other race-track notables, who make a habit of stopping at Max Hirsch's Belmont Park cottage on summer mornings for breakfasts of hot bread and ham & eggs, his frail-looking, sad-eyed 22-year-old daughter is usually called "Miss Mary." She rises at 5, spends the morning at the track, goes to the races in the afternoon, to bed at 9. She owns three dogs: cocker spaniel, pointer and Dalmatian. She wants to stud)' aviation, has never ridden in the show-ring or to hounds. This summer she expects officially to train...