Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gather that sufferers from this ailment neglect to buy Winners simply because they are used to asking for a particular brand, and therefore miss all the pleasures that Winners have to offer...
...mysterious as Leonardo is the manner in which most of his surviving drawings turned up in the possession of the: British kings. Leonardo left most of his notes to his pupil Francesco Melzi. All his life he had worked less on particular jobs than on general problems, on the reason for things, on a vast effort to transpose a closely-observed reality into a dream of possible perfection. Could he have found a serviceable fuel, he might have produced an airplane in the 15th Century. All his life he returned again & again to the study of the flight of birds...
Granted, now that they were around one small table, that the League was a feeble crutch at best, nevertheless, if Italy refused to arbitrate her border differences with Abyssinia, much more than this particular crisis was at stake. If Abyssinia's appeal should be dragged into the open League forum and if Italy still refused to arbitrate, the same thing would happen that had happened in the case of Japan and Germany. It would turn into a squabble of Italy against the entire League and probably force Italy to withdraw from the League. With the Danubian conference...
...lifetime of excessive reading. The Conservatives might not miss MacDonald's eyes but they would certainly miss his much-publicized heart. British dopesters were busy last week figuring that, if MacDonald resigned, he would take with him the weak men in the National Cabinet. This meant two in particular: Sir John Simon whose Olympian coldness in human contacts had not served Britain well in foreign affairs; and the Marquess of Londonderry, Air Minister, who should have known that Germany was building an air fleet...
...Scandinavian royalty lead simple, democratic lives, but perhaps nowhere in the world but Copenhagen do socialites find out what train to take by merely telephoning the Crown Prince. Crown Prince Frederick's private number is listed in Copenhagen's public book, and his particular hobby is memorizing railroad time tables. It is his proud boast that he knows the departure, fare, distance and time to other European capitals of every good train out of Copenhagen, gladly advises his friends. Music is his other great hobby; in the Royal Opera in Copenhagen he follows every performance with...