Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russian experiment has been undertaken by average men, but it has brought out some particular values which loom of surpassing importance. ... To them the harvest, the factory, their measures of protection and defense are most important; and sabotage, neglect, indifference and disloyalty, or the suspicion of them, in these matters are treason, heresy and blasphemy, to be dealt with as such...
...often happens that a President's son makes gossipy headlines by monopolizing the attentions of one girl throughout the evening. But last week Franklin Jr. and John, able sons of an able father, showed no particular preference among the young ladies. They did make news, though, when they selected the music to be played by Meyer Davis and his orchestra for their party. For Papa Roosevelt they picked "Home on the Range." his favorite. For Mama Roosevelt they ordered "The Blue Danube" and "The Merry Widow Waltz" was played in honor of Sister Anna. For themselves & guests they chose...
...McGuigan got his start as secretary to Bishop O'Leary of Charlottetown in his native province, Prince Edward Island. When his Bishop became Archbishop of Edmonton, Alberta in 1920, the youngish priest went along, still as secretary. Successively chancellor and vicar general of the archdiocese, he demonstrated his particular bent as rector of St. Joseph's Major Seminary. When in 1930 he went to Saskatchewan, Archbishop McGuigan found a fine archiepiscopal palace, no seminary. He gave up his palace, went to live with his priests, founded a seminary. Likewise he commended himself quickly to his Church...
Some of the newshawks who remembered that Einstein's original universe was closed, curved and finite were startled when he said he was no longer sure of this. But there was no particular reason for excitement on this score. Following the General Theory of Relativity (1915) Einstein erected a cosmos whose radius turned out to be 32,000,000,000 light years. But Willem de Sitter worked out a universe in which space itself was expanding independently of its matter and Hubble & Humason at Mount Wilson confirmed this expanding universe theory by actual observations. Thus Einstein's universe...
Such a remedy strikes at what has become to be the particular virtue of the Tutorial System, the intimate relationship it develops between an eager and an advanced mind. Precisely because no two men are alike, the method and approach of one cannot help differing from that of another. Even if students were grouped so that the two intended to work together did so congenially and at approximately the same speed, and with generally similar thoroughness, they will have lost the benefits of intimacy with the instructor. In the personal friendship which frequently arises between tutor and tutee is something...