Word: habits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They had personified-or spoken out of-the two "habit" sides of himself-the old Adam and the new Adam...
That balance will depend, obviously, upon what they have ever developed within themselves to draw upon. All the constructive, negotiable things they have cemented into habit-that will determine the size of the balance...
...human affairs that nothing in this world is stable which does not rest on habit. You gentlemen of the League are creating the habit of Peace. Persia wishes you speedy success...
When anything extraordinary and un- accountable has happened lately on the New York Stock Exchange it has become more or less of a habit to account for it airily by saying: "That's Chicago buying." Many an offerer of this glib information when asked what he means by Chicago, answers: "Oh, Arthur Cutten and the rest?yon know." Two announcements from Chicago last fortnight illustrated in part of whom "the rest" consist. One was the announcement of a new investment corporation ? Manhattan-Dearborn Corp. The other news was sale of new stock by Chicago Investors' Corp. The directorates...
Being in the habit of reading every word in every issue of your magazine, I begin to shrink from again encountering "potent." Why not vary it with "puissant...