Word: peculiare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peculiar aspect of yesterday's phenomenon was that it apparently radiated from overhead, and according to observers, centered directly above the CRIMSON building. Observatory authorities declined to comment...
Every Day's A Holiday (Paramount). In the peculiar idiom of show business, Mae West's art comes under the head of umph. This quality is expressed by sinuous gyrating and prurient murmurings. That this sort of thing will make money is well established. Actress West's last recorded cinema earnings (1936) were $323,000, about as much salary as Bethlehem Steel's president, Eugene G. Grace, and the chairman of its board, Charles M. Schwab, draw down together. That umph sometimes shocks the public is established...
...planned next year to establish workshops in the Department of Architecture, where students may obtain further practical experience with the fundamental processes of manufacture that are peculiar to buildings...
THESE poems do not, as some critics have asserted, show particular technical incompetence. Doubtless even in the 18th contury when critic and publisher were more fastidious, technically Mr. Hillyer's couplets would have been printable, although their manner would have been considered peculiar. This manner (I mean by manner a mingling of substance and style), however, because of its diffilusiveness and giddiness is discouraging...
...recent months Carl David Anderson of California Institute of Technology has been experimenting with a peculiar particle which showed up in the cosmic rays reaching earth. It appeared that this "X-particle" had a considerably higher mass than m, so Dr. Anderson, who had a natural and profound respect for the constancy of m, was quite sure it was not an electron. Jabez Curry Street of Harvard measured the X-particle's mass at 130 times m, although he said it might be subject to a 25% error either...