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Word: habits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to the rehearsed entertainment, the audience will have a chance to participate in Christmas carol singing. Malcolm H. Holmes '28, who leads the orchestra, has made it a habit in the past to give three children from the audience a chance to try their hands at conducting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Will Sponsor Combined Glee Club-Orchestra Concert | 11/22/1949 | See Source »

...topical reference to each guest's home state, we were conducted into the dining room where two ladies were pouring tea at opposite ends of a candle-lit table. "I feel that these affairs will accomplish a great deal even if they only get the freshmen into the civilizing habit of tea-drinking," someone was saying, as I reached for some sandwiches, obeying a primitive urge...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Tea at the President's | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

Stylist. In Rio de Janeiro, Decio de Souza Santos, who made a habit of sending a letter of apology to each of his burglary victims, was arrested when he showed up at the stationer's to buy a fresh supply of his favorite note paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Argentina's Minister of Education, Dr. Oscar Ivanissevich has a habit of dropping into classrooms around the country to deliver homespun lectures on the greatness of his boss, President Juan Perón. Last week, in a broadcast aimed at all the nation's schools, Ivanissevich outdid himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Next to Godliness | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...most of you know, I have devoted a third of a century to our industry . . . Yet at this time, when the industry demands and requires a fixed habit of production economy, seems I can't get a job . . . Must we always wait until a productive pioneer is found dead in some 'obscure Hollywood hotel room' before you reflect upon an 'indifferent and forgetful' industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Help Wanted | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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