Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With nicotine so strongly suspect, it would seem the part of wisdom at least for Harrison and others with obvious coronary disease to break with the smoking habit...
...population, the unpretentious façade of J. C. Penney Co. is as familiar as Main Street. The farmer who goes to town usually stops at Penney's, and so do the townsfolk who don't mind cash & carrying from Penney's to save dollars. This habit of year-in & year-out buying at Penney's has built the company, which has stores in every state, into the third biggest U.S. retail chain. Last year, only Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. sold more goods than J. C. Penney, which rang up a whopping...
...King Is Useless." A complicating factor is Leopold's Bavarian-born, 72-year-old mother, Elisabeth, widow of the revered Albert and heroine of World War I. She has a habit of popping up in Brussels to dedicate Communist art exhibits, and was recently listed as one of the sponsors of the Communist "peace" rally in Paris...
...Three months later, the U.S. entered World War I, and Johnson went off to fight through the Meuse-Argonne offensive as a captain of infantry. He returned with a hatful of ideas on what was wrong with the Army. On an impulse which was later to become a habit, he sat down and wrote a book-length report on his views. He sent it off to Chief of Staff Peyton C. March...
Jones makes a habit of sending fat horses to the post. So did Hildreth; old-timers still remember that his Zev was "fat as a pig" the day he won the 1923 Kentucky Derby. Hildreth's superstitious aversion to cameras and black cats is something that Jones has no time for, but he shares his predecessor's ability to glance at a horse and tell how it feels. On the way to the track for a morning workout, he frequently flabbergasts an exercise boy, as Hildreth used to, by saying "Take that filly back to the barn...