Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harris termed De Voto's death a "tremendous loss. He was a man with a tremendous amount of courage who led the fight to get the best development of natural resources without regard for the interests of any particular group," he continued...
...interest in teaching, Gilmore is also a quiet and persistent scholar. His particular bent is the relation of Humanism to Renaissance political and social thought. Currently he is preparing a study on "Freedom and Determinism in Renaissance Historians." Because his work has dealt mostly with intellectual history, Gilmore was particularly pleased several years ago when Professor Langer approached him with the request that he write the Renaissance volume for the "Langer Series." "It gave me a chance to explore all sides of the field," he says. The result was The World of Humanism. Along with a copy of the Gutenberg...
...connoisseurs of incompetence. Let us look at some of the vintage years-1947, 1949 and 1951." With that, he neatly skewered the Labor Chancellors of those years: Hugh Dalton, Stafford Cripps and Hugh Gaitskell. "Each Labor Vintage Chancellor," Butler charged, "produced his own distinctive crisis with his own particular brand of incompetence...
...vaccine was made by the same process as the Salk polio vaccine, using formaldehyde to inactivate the virus. The virus is one of the group that doctors ponderously call adenoidal-pharyngeal-conjunctival (from the tissues it attacks), or APC* for short. This particular APC virus causes sore throat, eye inflammation, and a fever lasting about five days...
...year-old Joan Dunn. A graduate of The Bronx's College of Mount St. Vincent, she was beginning her career as a teacher of English, and as she walked toward the Brooklyn high school to which she had been assigned, she felt an "excitement in the air, that particular sharp-pencil, clean-copybook, brand-new-eraser crackle in the ether that made me walk a little faster...