Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House Committee, and of giving it the backing of all the Houses in the system. It is thus that a firmer foundation for inter-House cooperation can be built and the preference given to the interests of the College community as a whole, rather than the interests of a particular House in the group...
...held at such in frequent intervals that the performers, except the Pope, the Pontifical Court and the College of Cardinals are never the same. [Yet] they must appear spontaneously perfect, as if each single participant had known his part for a lifetime and acted from inherent impulse. . . . One interesting particular is that gifts of candles, bread, wine, water, turtle doves and birds in elaborate cages are offered to the Pope...
...university, heard of this he asked Lawrence how an 85-ton magnet would suit him. Lawrence gasped. Dr. Fuller also happened to be vice-president of Federal Telegraph Co., which had built four 85-ton magnets for round-the-world radio transmission during the War. Peace came before this particular magnet could be shipped to China and ever since it had lain idle at Palo Alto. Dr. Fuller and Dr. Lawrence jumped into an automobile and roared down to Palo Alto. Soon the big magnet was installed at Berkeley...
...this particular prize, two publishers began to prepare a year ago. Harcourt printed a revised edition of its best seventh-grade history. Row, Peterson entered the lists with Building Our Nation. For twelve months Harcourt's young agent, P. K. Burney, a former high-school principal, drove furiously night and day over Texas' vast distances, covered 50,000 miles, wore out one car and bought another. Like the two agents of Row, Peterson, Paul Baker and Raymond Franklin, Agent Burney visited teachers, principals, superintendents and members of the State board to win friends for himself and his book...
...hind brain radiates to other control spots in the hind brain, since in every cat which Drs. Clark & Ward trepanned, the single stimulus set off an unvarying sequence of all the cat's actions. This suggested what every notable physiologist has hoped to prove-that there is a particular spot in the hind brain for the control of every muscle in the body...