Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excited editor of the New York Daily News conjectured that evidently Adolf Hitler is no "pervert like some of his pals but . . . he is merely a neuter-a being who is apparently devoid of any sex feelings at all. . . . Hitler didn't execute the alleged head of this particular spy plot, the Polish Baron Sosnowski. . . . He was simply afraid to do that, in view of reprisals that would surely be taken in Poland. He had to content himself with taking two of the boss spy's poor little stoogettes, chopping off their heads. . . . This barbarity seems to indicate...
...Governor he could strengthen his fences in Louisiana. Whatever Huey's purpose was in this latest statement on his future, there is only one thing certain--he will never retire voluntarily from the national stage. Only when the patronizing American public, and the Louisiana portion of it in particular, decides to change its jester will the Kingfish really abandon the political scene...
...numbering of courses is not a major educational problem. For this reason it has been long neglected. Nevertheless despite current practice to the contrary, a university pamphlet should be intelligible and logical. The English Department deserves congratulation upon its initiative in this minor but significant respect. Professor Munn in particular should be thanked...
...again sent a student to Harvard who will some day, mark my words, shine as a first magnitude star in the Crimson swimming firmament. Already he has broken the Freshman record in the 200-yard free-style and bids fair to lower his own mark once more. This particular representative of Hawaii is Peter Emilio Arioli, Jr. '38, who gives his home as Hilo, Hawaii...
...quipu in a basket of weaving materials included in a collection purchased ten years ago. As the Museum then boasted no expert on Peruvian archeology, the collection was stored. Lately Dr. Thompson has been combing it for exhibition items. He announced he would try to ascertain what this particular quipu was used for, began with a guess that it might have belonged to an oldtime sorcerer who employed it in horoscope-casting...