Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress v. Budget, President Hoover's statement which implied that Congress was in the habit of overstepping his budget figures stirred critical resentment at the Capitol. Good Hoover Republican though he is, Washington's Senator Jones. Appropriations Committee chairman, rushed into print with a statement defending Congress against the implicit charge of extravagance. He pointed out that it had reduced the President's own estimates of expenditures this year by $27,000,000, and last year by $23,000,000. Other Senators accused the President of being "unfamiliar with the facts" and trying to build up public...
...Habit & Fried...
What the members of this Order wear is a modified Dominican habit. This consists of a tunic, fastened with a black girdle (having three knots at the ends, signifying the three-fold vows of poverty, chastity and obedience), a scapulary, and over all a mantle and hood. The indoor habit (with the exception of the girdle) is white. When a monk leaves the monastery he wears the outdoor habit, which is the same, save that its color is black. In cool weather he wears also a black cloak, and a black "fried-egg" hat, more common amongst English clergymen than...
...establishment of such a public school would certainly be a progressive step. On the other hand, it is improbable that, as a headline suggests, the school would be able to bring out "budding genius." Genius has a habit of cutting across barriers, of refusing to be classified. The great artist or poet who failed at school is a familiar figure. Even if a classification is made specially to fit the unusual student, there will be a rub somewhere. A school for talent may fare well. A school for genius amounts to a contradiction in terms...
...narcotic evil those of the Universities of Virginia and Michigan seem to be most scientific. Two years ago the Bureau of Social Hygiene gave the National Research Council funds for a study of drug addiction and the invention of a drug which would do for medicine everything which the habit-forming drugs do, yet not cause habit itself. Such a harmless, beneficial drug would make the manufacture of the bane ful drugs needless. Then they could be completely suppressed...