Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tournaments, a pair's score on each deal depends on how the partnership fares in comparison with rival pairs playing identical hands at the other tables. On this particular deal, because Goren refrained from doubling, Goren-Sobel gained an extra eleven match points. Those eleven were decisive; Goren-Sobel took the gold cup by the final tooth-skin margin of six points. Said Goren, summing up the triumph: "We played precision bridge-being neither reckless nor timid...
...English society--and universities in particular--are inexplicable without reference to their feudal past," declared Albert Halsey, Lecturer on Sociology, University of Birmingham, England...
...several Summer School students also interested in the theatre joined them, to bring new talent and ways of doing things that eventually brought the productions into being. The problems they met were the same that face theatre groups in the winter, as well as new worries presented by the particular situation of a summer in Cambridge. But the obstacles were overcome and the new group began production...
Once the three directors were convinced of the validity of their theme, they made a careful selection of artists, visited studios, often insisted on a particular painting. They decided on two free-form spontaneous doodles by the late Jackson Pollock, violent outbursts of vivid colors by Willem de Kooning, a melancholic mood piece by Grace Hartigan, harshly contrasting patterns by Richard Pousette-Dart. They added four morbidly humorous, squashed-face portraits by France...
...opinion that lately the price of the highly touted newer antibiotics is too high. Many of the drugs, said FTC, are in fact duplicates that individual companies insist on renaming for real or fancied trademark advantage, to the point that doctors no longer can remember what the particular properties are. The FTC conceded that the antibiotics industry has let consumers in on progress. From 1951 to 1956 output doubled, but average prices were cut so much that the industry's income decreased (see chart). The FTC also acknowledged that the business is cruelly competitive. Unless a maker gets...