Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example, Arch is likely to report laconically: "two dead birds"; his fans know an easy fly as "a can of corn," an easy, high-hopping grounder as "Big Bill," a curve ball as "No. 2," and a slow ball as "the set of dishes." A pitcher easy for a particular batter to hit is that batter's "cousin." A hard hitter "lays the wood to it." Base runners are "ducks on the pond...
...five-finger exercises, an attempt to put the Principles of Design through their paces, to make drawings and paintings which will be illustrations of basic principles of order, not an attempt to explore the relation between what the artist wants to say, to describe, to express, and the particular means he chooses with which to do it. If art is a language, then one can scarcely hope to learn its words without their meanings...
...find a means of forcing each Master to accept the given criteria. The Central Committee should require strict observance of the cross-section--intellectual, social, racial, and financial. Although this is at the present time fairly closely approximated, there are a few striking deviations, and one House in particular has violated the spirit of the crosssection. Much can be said for the development of House individuality and character, but this can be fostered on the basis of a cross-section as well as on that of a clique...
There are only two seniors in the first boat, Rowe and Talbot, which means one thing in particular--that Harvard has a chance in the Olympic trials next year. However, as far as this one fact is concerned, the California crew and the Yale crew are both starting out the season with no seniors aboard...
...week New Jersey's Mary Teresa Norton, chairman of the House Labor Committee, offered Elmer Andrews' amendments to Congress. Doing so, she conceded that the Act as it stands "has tended to create hardship on employers, reduce employment and generally dislocate the flow of business in a particular industry...