Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contribution to this field as the offering of a new method rather than the answering of a new need. He foresees the Littauer Center growing into a real center for men in the public service whether federal, state, or local, and for men in the social sciences, whatever their particular specialty, who are engaged upon research in broad public problems...
...will soon be asked to contribute money to the Council budget. The present system has been carefully developed in the past few years. The Council provides for the regular financial support of class activities and publications, of the Freshman Class in particular...
...What particular people are most popular with the motion picture audience? The motion picture audience is the nation-wide voting population...
...army's answer is that it has no particular expectations but that it is realistic. In 150 years of U. S. history the U. S. has repeatedly told the army that there was no job for it except a little domestic police work, but 25 consecutive years have never gone by without the army's being called on to undertake a campaign, against British, Mexicans, Spanish, Germans, red Indians, or white Southerners. And of the five principal wars the army has been called upon to fight, only one (the Civil War) was fought wholly on U. S. soil...
Alfred Krupp was the particular protégé of Bismarck and Wilhelm I. The Franco-Prussian War advertised his products and the Krupp firm became the greatest manufacturer of armaments in the world. Alfred Krupp retired to his castle in the Ruhr Valley in quivering hypochondria, went to bed in a room overlooking the stables, for he was always stimulated by the smell of horses. His son Fritz, while the German Navy grew like a house afire and the family firm got most of the armor plate orders, went to Capri, founded a mock religious order with gold insignia...