Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major habit-change is the Colonel's Saturday night talk on his Station WGN (World's Greatest Newspaper). Decorated (in 1923) for his part in the Battle of Cantigny, and author of a well-reviewed book on General Grant, the Colonel wished to clarify the military situation. Pronounced he: "If the French had only followed my advice and developed use of 105-mm. guns instead of 753 they would have been able to halt the German attack." Contending until late 1935 that an air force was at best an unimportant adjunct of modern armies, he told his listeners...
...hall that caused the real headache. It seems that in renting it out to the Orchestra, the owners had neglected to inform the hall's former occupants of the change. Since these former occupants were prize-fighters who used the balconies for workouts, and were in the habit of carrying some of their more battered compatriots across the stage to the dressing-rooms, no little trouble ensued. A collective sigh of relief followed the purchase in 1900 of Symphony Hall, the Orchestra's present home...
Hitler's High Command is not in the habit of announcing its plans, but last week, in a broadcast to Germans for home consumption, an Army spokesman gave a broad hint as to what might be on Hitler's mind...
...been brought up before, but beyond a meagre recommendation by the House Committee chairmen to alter the old system, nothing had been done until the Masters met last Tuesday. The strongest argument against a change allowing more meals in other halls was that certain dissatisfied undergraduates might form the habit of eating regularly in neighboring Houses...
Organized under the will of John Lowell, Jr. in 1836, the foundation limited itself to public lectures in Boston, which, in the habit of the day, were principally devoted to religious matters...