Word: particular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average student," says the Captain of Governor Warren. "I always figured he'd get farther on his personality than his legal knowledge . . .") They all learned what the Captain was after. He loathed the traditional law-school curriculum in which each course is a separate package, bound by the particular textbook cases at hand. He wanted to force a student to draw upon his entire knowledge of law. For all their sufferings, his students never regretted the hours they spent under the peppery little man who insisted that they look beyond their case books and think for themselves...
There are no such expressions as a "fast boat' 'and a "slow boat." All dinghios in a particular class are identical in construction, and, consequently, racing laurols go to the real sailor and not to the man who has simply the advantage of a good boat. Many regattas are now run on a round-robin basis, whereby the same skipper never gets the chance to race twice in the same boat...
...chief stumbling block which the Sphinx Club faced was that a majority of the Council has serious doubts as to the merit of the club system, and, in particular, the merit of the final club as an institution at Harvard College. Some Council members who disliked the club system felt that they could not vote to give the Sphinx Club a charter because such a vote would constitute endorsement of the club system. These Council members also felt that the chartering of the new final club might lead to a flood of charter applications for more new final clubs...
Miss Colligan, who "knows no particular Harvard men," was one of four models invited to a junior prom at the New Jersey institution by earnest undergraduate literati, and co-incidentally written up in the current Look. Safely back in New York, Miss Colligan gasped that "men from Harvard are distinguished and very fine gentlemen...
Schnabel has toured the United States and Europe for the past few years, giving concerts of the works of Beethoven, Brahms, and Mozart, in particular...