Word: peculiare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under U. S. pressure Taabor Pasha handed over the government to Karadagh. Attracted by the furor came Star Reporter Manfred B. Tate who was addicted to smoking a corncob pipe in hotel dining rooms, served no masters, feared no groups. Reporter Tate sailed right in, investigated along his own peculiar line. When he reached the end of that line he found a very peculiar hook, with a very peculiar catch, which caused two more...
...wage cut. Copenhagen papers accused "Fascist elements" among the bacon men of a daring, underhanded scheme to beat down wages by so disrupting Danish finances that the Government would have to unpeg the Danish krone, pegged at present to the British crown. Promptly Danish laborites adopted a peculiar slogan, shouted outside the locked bacon factories^ "Rather join a live Chamberlain* than a dead Kreuger...
...want, is some means of exercising the restlessness which seems to be continually in my heart. . . . It is why I tried so hard to win a Phi Beta Kappa key [and did];. . . . I hope to heaven . . . this constant hope of arriving at some degree of perfection is not a peculiar form of conceit. . . . To me it is Religion. The other people you have written to will have clearly expressed answers. . . . I wish I could see George Bernard Shaw's. He once told me that tennis should be played in a meadow, with grass a foot high, and with no balls...
Sewell Lee Avery, the president of United States Gypsum Co. who was put in as chairman of Montgomery Ward & Co. (TIME, Dec. 7) and then president, has a peculiar way of talking. It is a slow, somewhat sarcastic and testy way. Men who sit with him on his numerous directorates know that before they get down to the agenda they are likely to hear Mr. Avery launch into often irrelevant, always amusing discourse...
Because students are limited in the number of languages they can count, and are not given credit for either Italian or Spanish, many are prevented from following out their personal linguistic interests. Transferred and graduate students, moreover, have often met serious difficulty by the peculiar restrictions imposed by Harvard. Besides the fact that many colleges recognize modern languages such as Spanish and Italian, these languages have sufficient philological and literary importance to warrant their study...