Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coal, gas or oil for furnace fuel will depend on costs. But where coal furnaces persist, the coal must be kept in dustproof bins and fed into the furnace by mechanical stokers. Household heat from a community central heating system is remote, except for new, custom-built towns. Each house will have its own incinerator for waste paper...
...point-lead over the Belgian team of Van Nevele and de Lille, McNamara and Peden stole a lap in the last ten minutes of the race and held it to the end. Behind the Belgians came the reckless French team of Letourner and Guim-bretiere, who, as is their custom, had been squabbling with each other throughout the race...
...under the professional necessity of delivering some kind of eulogy on such an occasion. He will remember similar predicaments in which he has found himself on occasion, and will wonder why, since the service occurred in an Episcopal church, the rector did not seek asylum in the superior custom of the Anglican communion of refraining from any kind of eulogy. ... If a saint has died a eulogy is useless, if a sinner a eulogy is impossible, and if like Tomlinson and the rest of us the deceased is neither a sinner nor a saint a eulogy tempts the parson...
...point has been raised from time to time that the position of tutorial work at Harvard is somewhat equivocal. Two styles of education, the lecture system and the tutorial, are in operation concurrently, one entrenched and thoroughly developed by time, custom, and knowledge, the other, so far as Harvard is concerned, still young and experimental. Interest therefore attaches to the recent vote of the President and Fellows, duly sanctioned by the Overseers, "to approve and adopt the recommendation of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that . . . the number of courses required for the degree of A.B. or S.B. be reduced...
...life, the Holy Father is fitter at 74 than many a less active man. But his weight has dropped from 189 to 176 Ib. He used to smoke strong Italian stogies, does so no more. He has given up drinking wines (Bordeaux was his favorite), drinks boiled water, a custom he adopted in Poland. Slightly diabetic, he eats sparingly but still likes Milanese cuisine, risottos, cutlets. He has a valet named Malvestiti.* The Holy Father shaves himself, with a safety razor. Once a fortnight Simoncelli, the Papal barber, cuts his hair which is still dark. Simoncelli must be silent...