Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inflexible dogmas have been left behind as Mr. Thomas has adapted his general creed to the U. S. A major obstacle to Socialism in the U. S. is an innate hope in every citizen someday to become a capitalist. According to Mr. Thomas, U. S. workers have a discouraging habit of thinking of themselves first as white or black. Jew or Gentile, native or foreign born, factory hands or field hands, rather than as a toiling mass all in the same economic boat. To develop class consciousness among workers, to convince them that they have no worthwhile chance of becoming...
...always pretty good. I got a little asthma, maybe." A Bohemian farmer with Rosicky's resilient enjoyment of life was not likely to be much worried but Rosickv's wife made him sit in the kitchen and take life easy while his sons did the plowing. Rosicky's long habit of friendliness finally got the better of him. He thought the thistles ought to be cleared out of the alfalfa field on his son Rudolph's farm. "He put the horses to the buggy rake and set about raking up those thistles. He behaved with guilty caution. . . ." Two days later...
...chair. When the U. S. Ambassador was about to make his third start, he saw that Soviet Delegate Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov had arisen. "For several weeks, even months," observed the Russian, "several delegations have been talking continuously, while others have not spoken at all ! Unless they have lost the habit of speaking, delegates should be allowed to speak as they wish...
...energy, he comports himself, away from tennis courts, in a manner almost painfully lethargic. Vines ambles when he walks. His frame, more knobby at the knees and elbows than an athlete's should be, presents an awkward aspect. Languid even in responding to a new environment. Vines maintained his habit of retiring and rising early last week. In Paris, he investigated neither the Louvre nor the Folies Bergere. In London, he ordered new and wider trousers which fit him better than his old ones...
...meeting at Syracuse last week was intellectually and physically headless. To New Orleans did not go retiring President William Hunt Morgan of Caltech or incoming President Franz Boas of Columbia. Both were seriously ill. Last week President Boas, still ill, was in Europe. By habit the A. A. A. scientists mustered gumption for the reading of a few papers...