Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opinions on the third issue expressed at the meeting were split. The majority of those who spoke voiced approval of sending books and paper supplies, rather than food, to some particular school or nstitution. Elizabeth Tucker, class representative, finally moved that the entire question be placed on the ballot...
Quoting out of context is risky business, and in this particular case the speakers' original intent because twisted into an entirely different meaning. Bruce Harriman...
...bookcase outside the Periodical Room of Widener. They will probably encounter difficulties similar to those of anyone looking for hour exams last month. He found three sets of finals and three or four sets of hour exams for every year since 1934, scattered throughout five shelves in no particular order. But after kneeling for half an hour and fumbling through the stratified heap, maybe he found his needle. Then he briskly turned the pages and very likely discovered that the key to his success had mysteriously vanished. All that remained was the unravished pieces which pecked out from the binding...
...with the truth of what he saw. "His dancers and laundresses were seized in professionally significant attitudes which permitted him to ... analyze various poses never before of interest to painters. He abandoned the beautiful, soft, reclining bodies, the delectable Venuses and Odalisques . . . But he was intent on reconstructing the particular female animal, slave of the dance, the laundry or the street. These more or less deformed bodies he forced into unstable attitudes (such as doing up a ballet shoe or 'pressing down an iron with both hands). They reminded one that the entire bodily mechanism ... is capable of grimacing...
...couldn't exist without Sagen-dorph and his staff, "may forecast that a particular day will be 'warm.' He never says how warm it will be ... I'm not sure our definitions would be accepted in official weather circles. Abe defines rain as any precipitation which will spatter off a bald man's head. Snow means you can see a cat's tracks across the barn roof. These are meaningful definitions, but the specialists down at the Weather Bureau would probably have to hold their sides to keep from laughing." Funny, though, says Sagen...