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Word: particularities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tearing down through floor after floor of a building by its own weight, then the dull, shuddering, colossal detonation from the cellar. In accordance with Douhet, the objective was considered to be the whole city: the shattering of the morale of its people and the Leftist Government. Thus no particular targets were aimed at and every quarter of Barcelona, slums, palatial avenues, business quarters and parks, received the bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Barcelona Horrors | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...most Houses the number of vacancies is about one-third of the total capacity. Variations from this proportion are due to the fact that in several of the Houses, and in one in particular, the number of Seniors who are leaving because of graduation is considerably larger than usual. The rest of Dean Hanford's statement follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Increase of 50 Vacancies in Houses Over Last year Noted in Report Made by Dean Hanford | 3/25/1938 | See Source »

...figures are presented at this time to give students applying for the Houses all available information and to clear up certain misunderstandings regarding the number of accommodations available. One the other hand, men are warned against being unduly influenced by the number of places available in a particular House in making their choices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Increase of 50 Vacancies in Houses Over Last year Noted in Report Made by Dean Hanford | 3/25/1938 | See Source »

...February the committee held 30 meetings, heard 50 witnesses, devoted most of its time and most of its 85-page report to Imperial Airways Ltd. Excerpt: "There is not today a medium sized airliner of British construction comparable to the leading foreign types. Foreign manufacturers, American in particular, dominate the European market. . . . Management has been defective . . . intolerant of suggestion, unyielding in negotiation. Air services to the West Indies and across the Pacific are an uncontested monopoly of an American Company" [Pan American Airways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Cadman Castigation | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...must consider the new situation clearly, but with cool judgment and with confidence that we shall be supported in asking that no one, whatever his particular preconceived notions may be, shall regard himself as excluded from any extension of national efforts that may be called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Britain in Crisis | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

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