Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Telling his Network audience that "slang is perhaps the best indication of the liveliness of a language," the professor pointed to the British practise of breaking down ordinary words, as distinguished from the American habit of invariably creating a new word instead of corrupting...
Their cabin, which blimpmen call "the car," is fitted out with airline luxury-three bunks, chrome chairs, cookstove. There is a reason for these comforts. Effective watch is a terrible strain, especially when the lookout must scan not only the surface, but underwater-for U-boats have a habit of lying motionless on the continental shelf in daytime. Consequently blimp observers can stand watch only a little over an hour at a time, are encouraged to doze during the off watches. Any comfort they can be given is not wasted...
Although Denver has never had the morning-paper habit, since 1940 the News has managed to up both its daily and Sunday circulation some 5,000. It sells around 44,000 daily now, around 48,000 Sundays. This is a long way from the 158,000 daily circulation of the blatant Denver Post (evening...
...able man, although a peculiar choice for such a job, he had one worthwhile qualification: nobody in Washington has any particular reason for disliking him. But he was said to have refused the job. Mr. Davis said it wasn't so. ("I'm not in the habit of refusing jobs that are not offered...
...beat, but the Grand March isn't designed for a quick step and besides the ballerinas with their count got our right feet in midair on the heavy beat. I figured this might be a hold-over from the Egyptian Army regulations, or it might be simply a ballet habit of spending the better part of one's working time up off the ground. I tried to look as though I were returning from a successful Ethiopian campaign (i. e. I tried to look like Mussolini) and minced onto the stage...