Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Answered the President: a "little inflation" is like a little opium: soon you want more, then you have the habit. If food prices soared, labor would bolt through the Little Steel formula; presently all prices-including what the farmer wanted to buy-would get out of hand...
Make It a Habit. Almost all the Hour's 12,000,000 U.S. listeners take literally the League's injunction: "Make it a regular habit to send in a donation to the LUTHERAN HOUR! The need is great and the benefits are equally great. $1 sends Christ's word to 1,500 persons." Some send coins, most send bills, and now & then someone sends a substantial check. Recently soldiers in the Aleutians took up two collections, sent $275 "in appreciation" of the Hour. Last month a Michigan farmer wrote Dr. Maier ("Dearly beloved servant of Christ"), praised...
...trade seems to be to divert it to beer. Mexican beer is among the world's best. And since 1932, the beer industry has persuaded the tax-conscious Government to reduce taxes on beer so that it can be sold almost as cheaply as pulque. Breaking the tippling habit of centuries will be slow, but Mexico's booming beer industry shows that it may be done. Beer consumption in Mexico in the past ten years has jumped fivefold, from 55 million to 240 million liters...
Sleep is just a bad habit. So said Socrates and Samuel Johnson, and so for years has thought grey-haired Richard Buckminster Fuller, futurific inventor of the Dymaxion* house (TIME, Aug. 22, 1932), the Dymaxion car and the Dymaxion globe. Fuller made a deliberate attempt to break the sleep habit, with excellent results. Last week he announced his Dymaxion system of sleeping. Two hours of sleep a day, he said firmly, is plenty...
...People," said the late, large Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad. . . . It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep...