Word: wonted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...journeyed out along the post road to meet each other half way on neutral territory. Football was finally beginning to take on a modern aspect with a genuine differentiation between backfield and line. Scouting was not yet a business and sometimes chose picturesque methods. Some enterprising Yale men were wont to observe Harvard's secret practice on Soldiers Field from the Mount Auburn Cemetery tower, until Major Henry Lee Higginson was apprised of the situation and built such a lofty fence in a strategic position that thenceforth the Yale scouts saw nothing but an expanse of pine boards...
...benefit of very great value. At present the outlook in the colleges is far from hopeful. The student reads in his room less and less. As a rule he shares his rooms with one or more friends, and when they and their acquaintances drop in--as they are wont to do--studying becomes out of the question. More and more the student is beginning to utilize his room for bridge, or the victrola, or some sort of a good time; and when he feels the need for study, he repairs to the spacious and comparatively peaceful reading room at Widener...
...wont, and that...
...Balmoral Castle, where the late Queen Victoria was wont to indulge a "homespun taste for Scotland," journeyed British royalty to spend the weekend. Tenants, servants, and "gillies" on the Balmoral, Agergeldie and Birknall estates were bidden by their Britannic Majesties to a ball. The King's own piper, Major Forsyth, was in attendance; and, "as an interested spectator," came the Archbishop of York...
...Loud, vituperative" Dr. John Roach Straton last week demonstrated that the first of these adjectives-two terms that have come to be associated with his name from the writings of penny journalists- is not necessarily unbecoming. Dr. Straton had declared, loudly, as is his wont, that he had seen two holdups on a single morning in Chicago. When the Chicago Evening Post offered him $100 if he could support this assertion (TIME, Sept. 28) many thought that the U. S. would be entertained with one or more demonstration of this preacherman's blatancy. Instead, Dr. Stratton last week submitted...