Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fast set of rules. Almost in military fashion the American is forced to follow this code under penalty of losing his place on the team; so true to the laws of human nature, rather than thinking of the end for which the laws are made he has a habit of thinking of them as an infringement on his freedom." Hallowell said in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter...
...have built typewriters with the Dvorak-Dealey arrangement, which the University of Washington Book Store has been vending. But the manufacturers are reluctant to put the new arrangement on the general market, for the millions of typists throughout the land have been trained at the present keyboard and human habit is a vested interest which only tremendous efforts can alter...
...experienced politics, international economics, big business. Last week at Cambridge's Radcliffe he weighed the New Deal, concluded that it would be neither a complete success nor an utter failure. A thoughtful critic. he predicted that "the immobility of men's minds, the persistent force of habit, the resistance to new rules" would thwart quick fundamental changes in U. S. life...
...maggots eat dead tissue and germs, but do not touch live flesh. This maggot habit the late Surgeon William Stevenson Baer applied to the treatment of festering wounds and bone diseases. He got astonishingly good results. Surgeons every- where are beginning to use the Baer technique...
...habit of falsifying the Record, even if the Senator from New Mexico is." "We are all fond of the Senator from Virginia. He takes advantage of that fact to insult his colleagues freely...