Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bachelor Mark became known as "Easy Mark," a soft touch for a loan. Trade also handed out plenty-for hospitals, churches, parks, etc., blithely putting Mark down for half of each donation but always getting just his name on the cornerstones. Trade was the penny-watcher. Except for his habit of taking the waitresses from their plant restaurant for a daily ride in his surrey (later a Fiat), he ran everything with Scottish austerity. As a result of his insistence that all paper work be done on the backs of old envelopes, Smith Brothers kept no records for 65 years...
...Broken Habit. The speech over, the President was off for a brief rest prescribed by his doctor. He went straight to the airport, boarded the Sacred Cow for a flight to the Key West naval base.* His first day there, the President began wiping out the faint traces of strain from his Mexican trip and the feverish conferences on Greece by breaking a habit: he got up at 8 a.m. instead of his usual...
...more machines help on other problems. The flashmeter throws a word on a screen for an instant, testing readers the "aircraft recognition" way. The metronoscope flashes sentences in phrases; it breaks the word-by-word habit and the rereading habit, builds rhythmic reading...
When he landed in Cuba, Columbus discovered "a dog that didn't bark." Barking, like kissing and sending Christmas cards, is a social habit fostered-for better or worse-by civilization. Wild dogs never bark, and among primitive peoples even house pets and hunting dogs seldom speak above a dignified growl...
...sheer inertia, the College has permitted the seven weeks' hurdle to carry over into a term in which it has manifestly become a nuisance. What is inertia now may become habit by fall--examinations are an historic vice of administration offices. At its next meeting, the Faculty should vote to abolish the seven weeks' rule...