Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both the Boston Pops and the Harvard Glee Club appear to achieve success through habit. What would seem startling to most American communities, the business of listening to music flippantly rather than in the solemnity of Art or of conspicuous leisure, is now an accepted part of Boston-in-the-spring. And the Harvard Glee Club has now reached practical perfection in the repertoire developed since last fall...
...explain the Dodgers' second-place splurge. They had been doped to waddle along in seventh place, or worse. But Manager Leo Durocher's pre-season prediction that he would uncork some useful pitchers had come true. The hitters, led by Puerto Rican Luis Olmo had made a habit of coming through in the clutch. These tangible assets, and the old Flatbush urge to die for dear old Durocher. had enabled the Dodgers to win eleven straight for a season record...
...Rizzitello collected his mustering-out pay, turned in all his gear except one complete uniform. Finally he stood before a colonel who handed him a paper, shook his hand, said: "Good luck, Rizzitello." Mr. Rizzitello blinked, said "Thank you, sir," out of long habit, made a snappy salute and went home to his bride, a suit of civvies, and his plans to "get into the chicken business...
Much of the time, in his slow, expensive efforts at perfection, Minnelli drives writers, producers, actors and technicians quietly out of their habit-hardened professional minds. But he does it so gently, and always for such excellent reasons, that they end up, as his producer Arthur Freed says, by "loving him." Says his cutter, George White, "He may drive you crazy but he gets what he's after. For a guy who has that much on the ball, I'll string along...
...days, their sperm counts fell well below the minimum for fertility, and they remained sterile for 67 days. Dr. Pincher, following up this study, investigated hospital and domestic bath temperatures which range from 105 to 110°. Putting two & two together, he suggested that the modern hot bath habit may be largely responsible for the declining birth rate in "civilized" countries...