Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sciences, demands ready access to great quantities of material not available in English. Beyond this practical consideration is the need to widen the intellectual horizon of the student through a mastery of the thought and expression of another race. More patent, perhaps, and more often questioned is the habit of mental exactness which the study of a foreign syntax develops. The present requirements fulfill all but the last of these needs very imperfectly; the standards of knowledge are not sufficiently advanced to insure command of any foreign language either as a tool to scholarship or as an independent intellectual experience...
...once the rally habit has been regained, why discard it? Why not a rally every Friday before the games and even before the Wednesday scrimmages? To some this may seem overemphasis, but to me it symbolizes the dawn of a new era of victorious teams and of lettermen who are not afraid to wear their H's in the Yard! Yours for "College Spirit," "Brown of Harvard...
President Roosevelt knows many ways of spending Sunday evening more pleasantly than conferring with monetary experts. Yet such conferences have become almost a habit for the reason that Sunday is convenient for considering the past week's money moves, planning the next week's moves. Last Sunday evening Secretary Woodin, long an absentee because of illness, was on hand again. So was Eugene R. Black, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, George L. Harrison, Governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Henry Morgenthau Jr. of the Farm Credit Administration, Chairman Jesse Jones of R. F. C., Henry...
Salisbury's nephew, Arthur James Balfour, "preserved throughout his life a graceful indolence of manner, the habit of lying abed until noon, and that of never reading a newspaper, even as Prime Minister." Maurois quotes Balfour's typical remark: "I am more or less happy when being praised; not very uncomfortable when being abused; but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained...
From his lawyers Quarry Insull has acquired the habit of chewing sticky Greek candies between puffs on his pale cigar. Just before the verdict was expected he shook hands with Hunter Harness who might soon be escorting him back to the U. S. under guard. Then Presiding Judge Panegyrakis emerged with a fistful of scratch paper on which he had penciled the Court's decision. No light affair, it began with 25 minutes worth of ambiguity, got down to cases only in the last ten minutes, when the Presiding Judge exclaimed: "It is agreed that the man whose extradition...