Word: peculiare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because of the peculiar physical properties of he latex rubber, the cured balloon can be expanded with a very slight pressure to at least 16 ft. in diameter before it bursts. In the expanded balloon the latex rubber is stretched so that its thickness is in the neighborhood of .00006 in. It is their ability to expand to such great size that makes these balloons so well-adapted to stratospheric work...
...Geneseo-Buffalo area, through to the Binghamton-Ithaca "Storm Country", "Down the Bear Path Road" of Central New York, up North to the Adirondacks, "Land of Frozen Flame." Hit and miss Mr. Carmer picks up local anecdotes, Indian superstitions, regional customs, scenic wonders, as he goes. It is a peculiar system of newsgathering he uses, here depending on what he sees and knows, here taking in the stories of rural raconteurs, rarely bothering with actual substantiation of what he says--now poeticizing the life of degenerate redskins at the Tonawanda Reservation, of two-fisted lumbermen in the northern mountains...
...counsel that she let Mamoulian direct her in Song of Songs. The picture was not wholly a success. After this partial failure Dietrich returned to von Sternberg. They made The Scarlet Empress, based on the life of Catherine of Russia. It was a picture characterized by a peculiar violence of background and a remarkable tedium of pace. By making a much better picture on the same subject, Elisabeth Bergner rubbed the first bloom off the von Sternberg-Dietrich prestige. Still there was no hint of rift until with dramatic abruptness von Sternberg told an Associated Press reporter he was going...
...sound & fury of, say, a steel mill. The speed of assembly and subassembly lines is not that pictured by Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times. Chief complaint is not the monotony of putting a washer on a bolt or a tire on a wheel eight hours on end but a peculiar nervousness which comes from having to do it within a limited time, even if that time is liberal. It has to be done. If it is not, the entire plant may be slowed down...
...first time in many a moon, the Admirals from Maryland tack their skiffs up the Charles and dock at Weld. In the Stadium, the gobs will fire broad-sides of TNT at the Harvard defence, and after the game, Harvard look to your laurals. Uniforms have a peculiar effect upon women. The Best Bets of the week according to Lloyd's are: Harvard, Princeton and the following top notch dine and dance spots...