Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...This competition has often proved ruinous in particular occupations; profits and wages have fallen in a marked degree as a result of the low price of prison-made goods.- Report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor (1886), pp. 94-97, 98 et. seq., 117, 118; Science, Vol. VII., pp. 117, 143, 168; United States Report on Convict Labor...
Freshmen in particular are urged to attend the debates and take part in the speaking...
...With Colombia or Nicaragua in particular...
...money seems to have been spent on the library for some time and the best way to use part of the bequest left last year for its improvement is to help the ventilation. A very slight expense in this particular would go a great ways and prove to make a vast difference in the attractiveness of the place...
With every enlargement of the various departments of instruction announced in the elective pamphlet, the maze through which the man of "no particular bent of soul" must wander becomes denser and more labyrinthine. But this is one of the disadvantages that attends every growth of what modern sociologists term "the diversification of function." The choice which the individual must make be comes modified and motivated by the introduction of new fields that are opened to him. A recognition of this fact is forced on every man as he sits down to make out his electives for the ensuing year. Moreover...