Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publicising its presentation this year, the Classical Club is serving a double purpose with particular fitness. It celebrates three hundred years of academic effort and achievement, and it also points a compelling finger at a vigorous previous flower on the tree of drama when apparently a new bud is struggling to open its petals. Several original undergraduate plays have been produced at Harvard this year, the New York Dramatic Critic's Circle is formed, creating an intelligent board to hand laurels to dramatic artists for the first time in America, and the Harvard Classical Club revives Plautus' Mostellaria; there...
...widespread, is aimed chiefly at workers and avowed radicals, the middle class will inevitably minimize its importance or deny its existence. But when the stink bombs begin to drop in the academic trenches the troops tumble out and become aware that a war is actually on. And in this particular war, whether either of them likes it or not, President Conant and Angelo Herudon are enlisted in the same service--along with all the rest of us whose right to speak or publish our undictated opinion has been challenged or abolished. --The Nation
...Service when he asked to have his wife taken to a hospital. Finally Representative Dunn got her a permit to go to a hospital. The Mississippi Congressman continued: "She was told to go back home and there to repose herself as best she could until she came to that particular period in her life which every woman who knows motherhood must face, and then to come back...
...them and falls in love with Karen. One of her grandmother's acquaintances, Mrs. Tilford, befriends them by sending her little granddaughter, Mary (Bonita Granville), to their school and recommending it to her friends. Mary Tilford, shrewd, neurotic and remorseless, hates schools in general and this one in particular. One night she hears a strange noise in Martha's room, and from then on all the cards are in her hands. She whispers to her grandmother that Martha is up to tricks with Karen's fiancé. Old Mrs. Tilford feels bound to tell the parents...
...final answer to the great virus question: Are viruses living entities like germs but too small to be seen and identified by means of microscopes? Or are they enzymes, like pepsin, which stimulate biochemical changes in the body? Or are they simply complex nonliving chemicals which cause particular trouble to the body...