Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squash season is now in full swing. The prospects for the Varsity are good, despite the fact that E. Rotan sargent, Richard W. Gilder, and Germaine G. Glidden, the latter being both the National and Intercollegiate champion, have graduated. It appears that the Varsity will have no particular individual stars, but a strong team...
Savage hand-to-hand battles in Madrid suburbs raged hotter every day as the week passed, and General Miaja announced with particular satisfaction that his Madrid machine guns had caught a wild Moorish charge by turbaned riders on Arabian steeds and mowed it down to the last horse and man. In the $25,000,000 University City founded by King Alfonso on the Capital's outskirts, fantastic conflicts raged among the modernistic buildings. Dispatches reported Madrid defenders gunning from behind books in the Philosophy library, selling their lives dearly among the Classics. In an international war, such as that...
...mood to shrug off some of Britain's most solemn treaty obligations. Before Europe could be shocked, however, Sir Samuel's entourage explained that the First Lord's words were an expression of the fact that Britain is not bound to send any particular kind of aid although she is bound to send aid and is true to this obligation...
...assignments. As a further indication of the lack of fundamental "grounding" in the subject, the percentage figures of the students attending tutoring schools last year ran well above average in each of the elementary courses. It is especially significant as an indication of a trend, rather than as a particular case, that in one elementary course in which a brilliant research man and capable graduate teacher temporarily assumed the lecturing duties, the number of tutoring school applicants sky-rocketed to a figure representing a quarter of the total enrollment...
Mitzi Mayfair, long a favorite with Harvard men, thinks the new parietal rule is "all right". When questioned, she expressed surprise to learn that young ladles are ever permitted in the dormitories. Rather non-committal, all she said on that particular subject was "Girls ought never to be allowed in a boy's room without a chaperon. If a couple want to be alone . . . well . . . there's a time and place for everything...