Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Acting upon an impulse which I imagined was largely a result of the particular mood I was in that day, I clipped from an insurance advertisement occupying p. 3 of your Sept. 16 issue, over a legend which ran in part "Motherless All Day. . ." the well-snapped picture of a round-eyed, marvelously wistful infant wearing an abused, tearful look of profound and perfect grief. Since then I have found that at least seven acquaintances also had the "impulse," saw, clipped the picture...
Moseley is the widely heralded "hulahipped back" who is one of the most elusive carriers Harvard has had in years. His particular type of running has suffered peculiarly from the lack of adequate blocking provided by his teammates...
Professor Matthiessen's book on T. S. Eliot deserves great praise. It is wet,--as opposed to dry; general,--as opposed to particular; currently interesting,--as opposed to deadly dull...
...this season to review "Top Hat" as though everyone in the world had not already seen it at least once strikes the particular reviewer in question as nothing short of a waste of time...
...athletics when he is discriminated against on all sides". It seems obvious that the conditions in Germany under which non-Aryans exist makes it impossible for them to participate in the Olympics, and that the injection of race, religion, and politics into sports in general, and the Olympics in particular by the German Government has destroyed the "free and independent" character of the Olympics...