Word: habits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sisters of Charity are probably the best known to the average American, with their black habit, black cap and large black rosary. They devote themselves to welfare work, nursing, teaching...
...People grow out of the habit of going to movies. Chief reason : they get married, have babies, and spend more time at home. Ace cinemaddicts are 19-year-olds, who buy some 2,080,000 tickets weekly. Laggard are those over 30, who give the box office just 35% of its take. Typical movie goer is 27 years old, earning $28 a week...
...five years (1917-22), because of that war, he did not play, "in case the old habit comes back and demands my time." Paderewski put Poland back on the map at the Versailles conference, and Clemenceau told him: "So now you are the Premier...
Although he is the author of the Labor Party's standard propaganda work, Practical Socialism for Britain, Author Strauss feels that labor does not trust him. She quotes a Labor M.P. who said of Dalton's "unusually pale eyes": "they have a habit of looking at you intently and conveying unfathomable depths of insincerity." Dalton is also "the most prominent smasher of independent movements in the Party. ... If he suppresses leaks in the blockade as rigorously as he has tried to exterminate all ... expression of minority opinion in the Labor movement, the blockade will be positive indeed...
Sirs: Ten-year-old Ann Gardner [who surmised that she might be TIME'S youngest reader-TIME, June 9] is indeed a young reader of TIME-but enclosed is evidence that my little girl-not yet six-had the TIME habit several years...