Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boss of the $57 million Atlas Corp., canny Floyd Bostwick Odium has made a habit of buying good properties at bargain prices', improving them, then selling out at a fat profit. Three years ago, he thought he saw a real bargain in Barnsdall Oil Co. Since Barnsdall had proven reserves of at least 140 million barrels of oil, each of Barnsdall's 2,223,307 shares of common stock was backed by roughly $120 worth of oil in the ground. Yet the stock was then selling around $30. Odium began buying large blocks of Barnsdall stock, by late...
...constant of your paper during the academic year 1948-49, I want to congratulate you on an excellent college newspaper. U hope that at some time in the future I may once again acquire the morning habit of bending over the doorstep to pick up the Crimson. W. H. Purdum
...restraint, it is not to be expected that they will fit into a pattern of stable married life without a struggle . . . What comes cheaply is not valued highly. But even more important, when a man knowingly deviates from the moral law, his ability to resist further temptation is weakened. Habit and the memory of sin are not easily effaced...
That worries me, as I handled Pet and Tropical Fish advertising for the Sun and now do so for the World-Telegram and the Sun ... I hope you will agree that both Tropical Fish and Pets are not only a popular national hobby (or habit if you must), but . . . will in no way harm the newspapers brave enough to carry these features...
...percent whose knowledge of sex was more empirical than a priori, only 40 percent, or 19.6 percent of the total, admitted indulging more than once or twice. The remaining 60 percent agreed it wasn't habit-forming...