Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond was sitting at a small table in a dimly lighted corridor of an out of the way stack of Widener Library. He had been there for several weeks, now, slaving over what he hoped would some day turn into a Senior thesis. He did not particularly care for his thesis, for he had a particular dread of being shut up in a poorly lighted place for hours on end, compelled to pore through book after book, article after article, searching for the headwaters of the fountain of knowledge, a spring which often seemed as elusive as the fountain...
...York's Senator Royal S. Copeland is a self-dedicated friend of the working man who is regarded by Labor with much suspicion. His particular jurisdiction is seafaring men, which he claims by virtue of his chairmanship of the Senate Commerce Committee. For the past two months he has held hearings on proposals made by Joseph P. Kennedy in his monumental report on U. S. shipping (TIME, Nov. 22) to amend the Maritime Act. Most controversial of the proposals is special maritime labor legislation modeled on the Railway Labor Act. Last week Dr. Copeland succeeded in stirring...
...staff of three or four full-time associates (two of whom frequently wrote 50 to 70% of the magazine) and about ten contributors of occasional pieces. In order to get out the magazine at all every one had to work seven days a week. On Sundays pencils flourished with particular vigor so that the staff could keep warm, since there was no heat in the building...
Asked if Great Britain were not abandoning a traditional policy in entering the projected pact with Italy, Wild said, "There is no traditional policy of dealing with dictatorships. Nor is there any particular reason to believe that Italy will stick to her word, but orderly discussion will call her bluff on whether she wants colonies or just wants...
while reserves remain a problem for Fesler, the showing of Heckel and Litman, in particular, in relief role has dispelled much of the coach's worry about replacing his regulars. Both are erratic, but when inserted in the lineup are of great benefit, if only for enlivening the entire team by their freshness. Heckel sometimes goes in at guard along with the dependable John Dampeer and Dick Wills...