Word: particular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each applicant fills out a detailed form explaining his special talents, his free hours, his employment preferences, and sundry other details. Then Holt calls upon his store of contacts to find a hob that will fit the applicant's particular idiosyncrasies, or if none is forthcoming, files the application away until a suitable job shows...
...will allow yourself the indulgence of some of Jean Cocteau's particular brand of photographic sensualness, which is the primary commodity of "The Eternal Return," you will probably have a big time. Otherwise, you may wish that Cocteau had never put the love potion in the medicine cabinet...
...stadium, so it enables the coaching staff down below to see something of what the spotter on the roof is talking about. It also suggests the possibility of having a special television set-up arranged exclusively for a coaching staff, so that the camera would focus on the particular players the coach is interested in seeing...
Here's how it will be done: each program will be prepared by an individual working group, consisting of students plus at least one faculty adviser whose speciality is that particular field. A dramatic presentation of the problem at hand will be broadcast one week, followed by a round table discussion of the problem by qualified exports the next. Planned so far are programs on city planning, education, housing, juvenile delinquency, and the Fair Employment Practices Commission...
...election draws nearer and nearer, all the political parties are imploring the people to register promptly and to vote without fail. Some campaigners have even struggled above the steam of partisan battle to admit that a large turnout is desirable in itself, whether it happens to be for their particular groups or not. And although a great many potential voters seem to be less than inspired this year by the privilege of picking their government, few will deny that a perplexing choice is better than no choice...