Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resounding voice ever since Chief Justice Hughes asked him to quiet down during the Carter case. Chief Counsel Wood attacked the law strictly on constitutional grounds. His thesis was that, since the burden was laid solely on employers and on them equally regardless of unemployment conditions in their particular plants or industries, it violated both the due-process and equal-protection clauses of the 14th Amendment...
Eight weeks is the normal length of the competition, but men of outstanding ability are often admitted after a shorter period has elapsed. Members of the Editorial Board make every effort in the early weeks of the competition to weed out those candidates who lack any particular promise, so that the time wasted by both the editors and the neophytes is kept at a minimum...
Never one to starve unnecessarily, Henri Matisse discovered that an art student could make a fair living as a museum copyist. For ten years, while his own painting swung further and further to the Left, while his interest in oriental art-Persian miniatures in particular -grew by leaps & bounds, he worked for the Government making microscopically exact copies of the great paintings in the Louvre for private collectors and provincial museums. By 1906 Artist Matisse, still youthful, but bearded as he is today, had given up copying, was the leader of an insurgent group of painters who were derisively called...
...This particular car did not come into my hands as those of a motoring correspondent," wrote the Earl of Cottenham. "Indeed, in the strict sense of the term. I am not a professional motoring correspondent...
...real basis of the Notre Dame system, with the play going either inside or outside the end. The success of this play is the result of getting to the point of attack with the fullest possible blocking strength with the least possible delay. On this particular play, the left end will charge down the field to try to block the safety man and, if the rest of his mates perform their blocking duties correctly, the Fighting Irish will have scored on another perfect play...