Word: particular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true scholars--those who have a passion to go exploring in the world of ideas, tracing down the lost, mislaid, and undiscovered facts pertaining to some particular subject...
...needs of students in city planning as general education or specific preparation for their work will be arranged with the cooperation of other departments of Harvard University, and students will be enabled to secure the assistance of experts in allied fields. Professors of fine arts, history, economic history, government, particularly municipal and state government, public finance, and public utilities, will open to the students of the new School courses which bear upon city planning or carry further in some specific direction the education of each student according to his particular needs. The Faculties of engineering, education, law, the School...
...furnish me information that would help me in my fight for a stronger Navy.? He told me of several inventions of his, and I replied that I would be glad of any aid he could give, I did not find him to be a Naval expert in any particular sense...
...knows too many after-dinner stories even to count. He knows his company for any particular one. He is no vulgarian. His manners would be called excellent except for his penchant to monopolize the conversation. On first acquaintance he seems a truly remarkable man. He does not wear well. That he has the talent and the information to make the mess a lot worse than it is, bad as it is, is not questioned...
...consequence is that if you had a general congress of all such reformers?not merely members of a particular society but all the people who are demanding sex reform?there would be a curious cross-party organization. Probably the Pope would find that on nine points out of ten he was warmly in sympathy with Dr. Marie Stopes. And all of them would probably disagree on such a question as the age of consent...