Word: particular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canavan labelled the present system, with rates varying in different localities, "unfair." He said that motorists in Boston and other large cities travel on congested roads and therefore have more accidents. He also believes that many of the accidents in a particular community are often caused by transients rather than residents...
...even more irksome was the criticism of the players-and it was hero that the grandstand quarterback displayed himself in all his ignorance. The particular member of the species who was behind mo reached two major conclusions during the course of the game, and he was not averse to letting others know about them. First, he thought that the Harvard quarterbacks should call more end runs. Second, he thought that Harvard should use fewer passes...
Here is what the Legislature did: An old New York statute prohibits teachers who advocate violent overthrow of the government. But since no court of law has yet decided that any particular group preaches revolution, the Legislature figured it had better write a decision of its own. So it passed a law ordering the Board of Regents to make up a list of "subversive" organizations, whose members could not teach in New York public schools...
...House Committee also hopes to reach students and teachers who traveled in Europe this summer, and who have made particular note of students and schools where aid might be sent. Operating through CARE and the Unitarian Service Committee, the organization has, in the past, aided students and groups in France, Italy, Holland, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Austria. Over 100 dollars was last year send to aid student DP's at Heidleberg...
What intensifies this particular difficulty, Professor Harris believes, is that devaluation in other countries will cut Britain's chances of increasing sales outside of the United States in the Latin American and sterling area markets. "Consequently I'm not overly enthusiastic about devaluation, because there is so much else that must be done...