Word: particular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story with a satisfactory climax. Thus, the work is complete, not composed at an oblique angle; its scenes dramatic, not melodramatic. Private Suhren, withal, decidedly concerned with the fortunes of himself, of his girl, and of his three or four closest comrades; it's only when he has particular cause, and can think somewhat coolly, that he grows patriotic. The greatest moments are his alone. So the broad, dispassioned, epic away is missing. The tragedy of a nation is not here, nor does it need to be. The personal narrative succeeds without...
...TRUBEE DAVISON, Assistant Secretary of War: "He was a grand person, and I know a very particular loss...
...considering these various fields of human endeavor, and methods of progress, we can consider, first of all, either the industries or the types of jobs in which a man may work, and we can consider for the moment the man as interested in some particular, field along either line, and that in any event a "castle's move" may, be possible as an outlook to future progress...
...appearance of Mr. Daly's series of articles on the phases of business is of particular importance now, Comparatively few of that host of Seniors who are inevitably going to enter some branch of the commercial field have had sufficient training to formulate any sound ideas on the subject. The cultural theories that see rightly a certain acquaintance with literature, art, music as highly desirable in producing that gentle abstraction, the complete man, generally trouble themselves not at all with the crass, sordid details that must crop up for every one without means, or desire to live in an ivory...
...winner by the audience should assure a more unbiased judgment than the present judicial system involving a few experts. Certainly the verdict of those uninformed, who can judge solely from the convincing force of the arguments as presented, should be a fairer criterion of the merits of the particular debaters than the decision of necessarily prejudiced experts. The Oregon system appears to be an answer to the existing demand for a more effective and valuable procedure in intercollegiate debating, and, judging from recent acclaim, bids fair to revive the dying popularity of the rostrum...