Word: peculiare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observatory star-gazers along with others throughout the world last night trained their telescopes and sky-cameras on the heavens' latest mystery--a peculiar object in the constellation Cetus...
...strong line if he has recently secured from Dictator Stalin a secret treaty of Soviet-Chinese military assistance. No evidence of this had come to light, but the Japanese have believed for many months that the Chinese Communists were "leading the way for Chiang's troops" in their peculiar retreat through seven Chinese provinces and that this must have been by secret agreement between Moscow and Nanking. Chinese darkly suspect Japan and Germany of having a secret treaty of military assistance...
...Orient frightened men are quick to attempt to bribe, and the Japanese Army & Navy has its own peculiar morality. Last week Japanese Sugar Tycoon Hatsutaro Akashi suddenly announced that a group of wealthy and patriotic Japanese love their Army so much that they are going to give it $50,000,000 in installments during the next three years. This was only a small sop, but it tended to decrease rather than increase the likelihood that Japan's swashbucklers would force Premier Koki Hirota to throw down the gage of war in an effort to call the tremendous bluff...
...conceals her guilt"), on gout, gunpowder, tanning, brewing, tragic acting, brought it out boldly. Much of the material deleted from the first published version of the Journal deals with the food the friends were served, with too-candid remarks on persons then alive. One strange excision describes a peculiar mood Johnson fell into while discussing linen with Boswell and other admirers. He said that linen showed dirt better than silk and "he had often thought" that if he had a harem he would dress his women in linen. The first published version of the Journal lets it go at that...
...moonlight, Wildfowler Scott will puzzle gunners in the U. S. where such practices are barred and only his "shoulder gun," in daylight, is legal. But U. S. readers will not long question the rightful membership of Peter Scott in best shooting circles when they read: "There is a peculiar aura that surrounds in my mind anything and every thing to do with wild geese...