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Word: particularities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week an under-official in the War Office at Vienna gave the most plausible explanation of all the marchings of Heimwehr men. They were preparing for no particular crisis but merely parading to show their strength in the provinces. Troops from different villages were being transferred to others where they would not be recognized because German Nazis long ago discovered that the entire impressiveness of a thunderous parade may be spoiled by one small child shrilling, "Ach, look at Uncle August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Rumors of the Week | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...financial questions, which apply only to rooms at or below $180, the blanks are similar in form to those distributed during the last four years and ask for ilnformation which will be of assistance in making the assignments, such as special claims for wishing to be admitted to a particular House, maximum price of room, the type of accommodation desired, academic standing, proposed field of concentration, activities in which the student has engaged, etc. The application blanks give students an opportunity, if they so desire, to express their special claims for wishing to be admitted to a particular House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APPLICATIONS FOR ALL HOUSES GIVEN TO CLASS OF 1937 | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...this connection, a letter which has been sent to each Freshman along with the application blank and House pamphlet states that "in considering special claims for admission to a particular House, weight will be given to a student's intellectual interests. It is not possible to have all fields of knowledge represented in all Houses. It is important, therefore, for those men who have definite interests to consider the implications of the choice of a House for those interests. Careful attention should be given to the special fields within the general fields of concentration which are represented by the tutorial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APPLICATIONS FOR ALL HOUSES GIVEN TO CLASS OF 1937 | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

However, the particular citation in the editorial to which this writer objects, is your characterization of Lindbergh as "The International Boy Scout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nemo Exhumed | 3/2/1934 | See Source »

Last October Author John McConaughy dropped dead on a Manhattan street, leaving behind him, as all men must, unfinished business. But this particular work in progress was far enough along to be given a posthumous issue. Whether or not Author McConaughy meant to answer his own rhetorical question, his indignant replies have gone far enough to show that there is more than one way of looking at U. S. history. Subtitle of Who Rules America? is A Century of Invisible Government. McConaughy's thesis: the real rulers of the U. S. from the beginning have been malefactors of great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rhetorical Question | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

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