Word: habits
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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...