Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quoted in Izvestia to the effect that clean engineers keep their machines clean. Mrs. Parrott. docking in Manhattan with tales of having bribed her way around Russia with 48 pairs of silk stockings, bubbled: "There is a growing interest in cleanliness among Russians. This is shown in their [new] habit of washing before meals. Culture is the new god. Russia is drifting toward soap...
However, it has been found that no two cases are ever alike and for none has a definite scientific cure been developed. All research tends to show that stuttering is merely a bad habit, and like all bad habits can be overcome by supplanting it with a good one. Stammering is usually pretty deeply embedded and requires much hard work and will power to conquer, but it is possible and that is why anyone desiring to overcome this handicap should consult Professor Packard as to the best way of going about...
...Impressive headlines have heralded impressive programs which have quickly petered out in obscure failure. Congress has passed laws and the Treasury has passed out millions but the heavy industries have continued to lag and the jobless have waited in vain for the "Roosevelt Building Boom." It is not the habit of the Administration to acknowledge a violent shift in basic policy but last week certain things were said and done in Washington which made it quite plain that the Government's housing program was about to make a 180° turn...
Japanese proudly recall that their Navy's habit of "visiting" Mexican waters has resulted in Mexicans now rating Japanese as at least their equals and far above "Chinamen...
Upton Sinclair has never broken himself of the colonizing habit. He went to Single Tax colonies at Fairhope, Ala. and Arden, Del. In 1909 it was "Physical Culture City" at Battle Creek, Mich., a health centre run by Bernarr Macfadden. At Battle Creek, discontented Meta Sinclair met Poet Harry Kemp, with whom she eloped two years later. And at Battle Creek, Upton Sinclair met his second wife, Mary Craig Kimbrough, daughter of a wealthy judge of Greenwood, Miss. When they were married in 1913, Judge Kimbrough, who had no more use for a Socialist than for a Republican, turned...