Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mass meeting to be hold in the New Lecture Hall tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock, the Defense Service Committee will open a campaign to make the University "bond conscious" and get students here into the habit of buying defense bonds and stamps...
...Ninety per cent of all bayonet technique, and a great part of the art of any type of physical combat, can be learned through successful boxing instruction," Lamar claimed. "The habit of consecutive thinking," that important quality of split second decisiveness, can be inculcated only through actual contact with fighting he added...
...ground chief, General McNair, formerly chief of GHQ staff, will have plenty of reason to exercise his habit of working 18 hours...
...decked boats is "preposterous." Nina, Columbus' favorite, was "one of the greatest little ships in the world's history." She drew only six feet of water, and sailed 25,000 miles under Columbus' command. Pinta was such a smart sailer that "Columbus became annoyed at a habit of Captain Pinzon in pressing on ahead when land was expected, in order to gain the reward." Morison guesses that she was about 75 feet long. Santa Maria was "somewhat" but "not very much" bigger than the others, drew "not more than 6½ feet aft when loaded." But Nina...
Stressing the fact that an army is not fit for marching or fighting while it is still in the grip of the drinking habit, Mrs. Putnam, pointed out that the Union was trying to educates the boys with modern, interesting advice...