Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Observatory, the entrances to which are on Concord Avenue opposite Buckingham Street and at 60 Garden Street opposite Linnean. If the weather permits, those attending the program will be given the opportunity to make telescopic observations of celestial bodies. The planet Saturn will be one of the particular objects of study...
...sadly shaken as it zooms from the 18th Century to the 20th, bumps down to the 15th, changes its orbit as unpredictably as a wayward electron. Speculators may not get far with Poet Pound, but steady observers will note a contemptuously indignant attitude toward civilization in general, bigwigs in particular, will note also a powerfully satiric effect...
University: "Handy Andy"--Will Rogers in a very amusing comedy in his particular homespun manner. Some hilariously funny scenes at the New Orleans Mardi Gras. "The Defense Rests"--all about a master criminal lawyer who wins every case he handles and ends up in the loving arms of his blonde secretary. On Sunday the change of program brings the very excellent "One Night of Love" with the captivating Grace Moore. Also the screen adaptation of Bruce Lockhart's exciting story of his experiences as British consul in Moscow in 1917 and 1918, "British Agent...
...short space of two months it is practically impossible to gain more than a superficial knowledge of the routine of a government office. Nor is the contact with the leaders of the various departments of much more practical value. Those men are generally extremely capable administrators of their own particular branch of work yet totally incapable of seeing their work in proper perspective. They are practicioners rather than theorists. What little information they have to offer can often be more profitably gained from the careful reading of a departmental pamphlet. The plan is further complicated by the fact that...
...along this unemancipated expanse of soil. For the world and all its singing birds and budding trees and songs and mountains and summits are shut outside. There is no life here. There can never be life save for that antique brown dress, the natural and invariable garment of this particular formation of earth, which in the twilight combines to evolve a thing majestic without severity, impressive without showiness, emphatic in its admonitions, grand in its god-like simplicity. Here is an ancient permanence that even the sea cannot claim. For the sea changes, the fields change, the heavens, the rivers...