Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peters also suspects tutoring schools of rifling class room drawers or breaking open absence report boxes in the college halls. To prevent these practices, it was suggested that Faculty men discontinue the habit of leaving lists in the classroom and that janitors be instructed to watch the report boxes...
...fortune once totted up to $40,000,000, is still the biggest individual owner of the company, but management has passed to more adept hands. President now is red-cheeked, husky Cal Sivright, who helped Oliver beat Depression by developing the first streamlined tractor. Well liked-except for a habit of asking to see employes' work sheets-he drives points home by banging on the arm of his chair. So characteristic is the gesture that the firm has taken pictures of it for posterity...
...living" in order that his experience of art may become a part of the equipment with which he is to establish a sound, happy and useful integration between himself and his world--that present world in which, quite naturally, he is primarily interested. He rather resents the academic habit which separates past and present and ignores their reciprocal relationship. He wants taste in the present tense, in the sense implied by Lionello Venturl's remark, "the history of criticism teaches that the critic has need of a present taste to direct his judgment even upon past art . . . the intuitive consciousness...
...impossible not to feel that this interpretation, though far more appealing than its antithesis, loses something important to the play. Hamlet's intellectual nature, or, as Coleridge has it, his habit of "calculating consideration which attempts to exhaust all the relations and possible consequences of a deed," is, after all, fundamental to the plot. In Mr. Evans, this side of Hamlet is not absent, it is merely submerged; but it has so become indefinite that one is actually not convinced when he says "Oh cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!" Neither can one answer...
Promptings. Despite the fact that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has publicly buried his own appease-the-dictators policy, it was evident last week that such an old habit would die hard. Correspondents even suggested that the Cabinet's Stop Hitler campaign was welded more by the white-heat of public indignation than by any new warmth for a showdown by the Government. Mr. Chamberlain admitted, however, that the present was no moment for him to go flying to see Führer Hitler again as he did last September...