Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: I have often wondered whether Miscellany is intended to be taken seriously and whether these believe-it-or-nots are verified with your usual care. In particular, being seriously interested in the homing instincts of birds and animals, I did not miss in the issue of TIME dated Aug. 14, the items labeled "Mother" (fleet Italian swallow) and "Toad" (Boston or Bust). Does the Miscellany editor have a pending file that will remind him to find out whether Teddy actually gets home again in April 1941? (Such a smart toad might reason that he is better off in California...
...classified) could not fail to recognize that for certain individuals other institutions of higher education might be better. It is of great importance to this country that this varied choice continue to be offered to the student fresh from school. Each type of institution must proceed along its own particular path of development without trying to copy another...
Composed of Overseers and outsiders chosen for their interest in a particular field, the committee's function is to advise the various department of the University. They exercise no actual control of policy, and the position is largely honorary...
...Certain subversive elements, pretending to serve the consuming public but actually motivated by Communistic theories, have persistently been attacking the institution of advertising and Good Housekeeping in particular as a leading medium in the advertising field. ... We believe that the underlying motive of these attacks on advertising is to destroy the freedom of the American Press...
...mine became "Groupers" (they like to add the erudite "Oxford" to the label) some time back but beyond a lopsided fanaticism, a persistent proclaiming how terrifically bad they were before and how "absolutely honest, absolutely unselfish, absolutely pure and absolutely loving" they are now, one fails to detect any particular difference. At any rate, not pragmatically, although I could not venture to appraise the mystical transformation...