Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which has followed the war. Their four children seem to be typical middle-western youngsters but the outside change and movement is reflected upon them and they drift rapidly away from their parents. Carl, the eldest and the pet of the family and the town, drifts through force of habit into marriage with a childhood sweetheart and after a few years of struggle to attain a richness and response which his wife cannot give him, he settles down to a life of intellectual stagnation and sexual frustration as Superintendent of Schools in the small neighboring town of Geneva. Dorothy...
...this occur, on the eve of the court's convening. President Roosevelt passed it a broad and hopeful hint when in his sixth "fireside" radio talk he recalled: "The great Chief Justice White said: 'There is great danger, it seems to me, to arise from the constant habit which prevails where anything is opposed or objected to of referring without rhyme or reason to the Constitution as a means of preventing its accomplishment, thus creating the general impression that the Constitution is but a barrier to progress instead of being the broad highway through which alone true progress...
...habit, while discussing this matter, to lay the blame on the doorstep of the Freshman adviser. This is convenient, easy, and unfair. For the province of the adviser is bounded by the limitations of the word advice, by his own business, and most of all by the initiative of his charges. Further, since he is thus constricted it becomes evident that the adviser can play no great part in any plan to matriculate the Freshman more completely, and more speedily...
...Chambre is no mean fencer but has not the habit of a duelist. However, it seemed to him last week that this challenge was somehow mixed up with the innocence of the entire Daladier Cabinet, the honor of French politics and maybe with the Stavisky Case. It might settle the whole issue of "manifestants" and "assassins" as against "rioters" and "statesmen." He read the card: "Jacques Renouvin, Avocat." Then he sent out his seconds...
...inventory of all the glass in the college buildings. It appeared as though the early authorities had little to do with their time, but it seems that the glass situation was serious in the first hundred years of the University's existence because it was an established habit among the students to throw brickbats and firewood through the windows of those of their tutors who were not popular and the Steward kept a special column on the quarter bills to keep a record of the amount of glass for which the student must pay. The Book is an important part...