Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anniversary of the Founding of the University of Heidelberg. The President and Fellows, in accepting the invitation of the University of Heidelberg, recognize the ancient ties by which the Universities of the world are united and which are independent of the political conditions existing in any country at any particular time...
...specialization. As the result of statistics already on hand, the powers-that-be have decided, according to Columbia University's Medical Dean Willard Cole Rappleye, that "beginning in 1938 no physician will be listed as a specialist who does not possess a certificate from a board in his particular branch of practice." Consonant with that idea, the A. M. A. Journal last week published a list of reliable x-ray specialists. The list was surprising, for it contained only 1,274 names for the entire country. Some communities like Des Moines have only one approved x-ray specialist...
...unsavory "pepper pool" collapse that rocked London commodity markets and brought losses of millions to British investors (TIME, Feb. 18, 1935). The "Pepper King," an Armenian-born British subject named Garabed Bishirgian, had been accused of issuing a securities prospectus which he "knew to be false in a material particular." Aiding & abetting this crime was the charge against John Henry Charles Ernest Howeson, one time Calcutta jute dealer who changed his name from von Ernsthausen before he became the world's undisputed "Tin King." Third defendant was a Howeson hireling...
...flood of Government money has yet to uncover a genius. Washington authorities hail as their own particular discovery bearded Frank Mechau Jr., 32, of Glenwood Springs, Colo., whose stirring panel Dangers of the Mail, was chosen for the new Post Office Department Building. Exulted Edward Bruce...
Jefferson did not love Hamilton more than Eugene Talmadge and Harold Le Clair Ickes love each other. The Governor of Georgia, a master of Southern invective, and the Secretary of the Interior, who possesses the most sulphurous vocabulary in the New Deal, long ago singled out each other for particular attention. Month ago Secretary Ickes curled his lip and sneered: ''Really, I don't pay much attention to anything his Chain-Gang Excellency says." Governor Talmadge drawled back: "Aw! He's just one of them boon- dogglers...