Word: particular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Graustein was an extraordinary individual who brought to administrative problems a precise and mathematical approach. He made out the course catalogue each year, almost as a hobby, for he enjoyed wrestling with its major difficulty: to schedule at different hours the courses which are most likely to interest any particular student, while at the same time not giving any teacher too rough a program...
...Government has lost face in China because of recent developments?" The question was broad enough to touch another sore point: U.S. helplessness over the shabby treatment of Consul General Angus Ward (TIME, Nov. 21 et seq.). Acheson flushed with anger. He replied, with heavy irony, that "face" was a particularly foolish Oriental conception which suddenly seems to have seized the American mind, that you can lose wars, you can lose honor and lose everything else, but to lose face seems to be terrible. It was a particular form of Orientalism of which he was not guilty, he said tartly...
...many other schools, undergraduate organizations such as fraternities handle a major part of student life. Students live and eat and spend their Saturday nights in clubs or fraternity houses; undergraduate offices frequently become the particular property of a specific fraternity. In such schools, admission of a club can make or break a student's life...
Working under Phillips was something of an experience. According to Ellsworth Young, the present owner, "the store ran more on inspiration than system." For instance, Phillips had a fabulous memory for where he had put his books, and consequently felt no need for keeping them in any particular order on the shelves. The resulting jumble caused his assistants no end of trouble. Phillips also was as much concerned with having people interested in his books as he was with making sales. He would go to any length to turn up a particular edition of Dostoevski or an out-of-print...
...purpose of this arrangement is to acquaint students with job opportunities in other parts of the country. However, "Men who expect to see these advisers should realize that these alumni have volunteered to counsel students, not to offer particular jobs," Bradshaw warned...