Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particular TIME was wrong. It reported that Presidential Valet Mc-Duffie introduced Walter White to Mr. Roosevelt. After Walter White had been put off for weeks by Secretary Marvin Mclntyre, Mrs. Roosevelt invited him to Sunday...
N.C.A.A.'s purpose was indeed to produce prints of educational value, and a number of its prints are worthwhile reproductions. In an effort to give representative selection of painters some pictures were included which apparently could not be reproduced with artistic fidelity by this particular process in its present stage; others whose reproduction required a meticulousness not feasible in the circumstances. Not cheap is the paper used but of good quality, chosen after tests to find the best paper for the purpose...
Therefore, last week when Manhattanites thronged the Metropolitan Opera to hear & see a new Rodolfo, Polish Tenor Jan Kiepura's exploits as Central Europe's cinema idol were no particular recommendation. But they found before the performance was over that a virile figure was not Kiepura's only asset. Tall, handsome Kiepura overacted at times, flopped melodramatically upon the prostrate corpse of Mimi. But his singing was agreeably robust, warm in tone quality. Applauding oldsters agreed that there was nothing the matter with Kiepura's diaphragm...
...plain fact is, of course, that the "service charge" which is proposed by Representative James J. Foley would badly cripple the University. Almost every dollar in the Harvard treasury was definitely car-marked by its donor for a particular purpose, and the fund which supports the Fogg Museum, for example, could not be applied to taxes on Lowell House. In spite of its rich endowment, Harvard, like every other educational institution, can under no condition afford to bear the burden of state taxation...
...made any kind of profit was in 1931, when it was broker for the Grain Stabilization Corp., working for Herbert Hoover's Farm Board. A profit was such a remarkable thing for Farmers National that a few years later it was investigated by the Senate, with no particular result...