Word: peculiare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attempts to conceal suicides are quite frequent in a medical examiner's experience. In one case when entering the bed-room of a youth said by his sister to have died of heart trouble, Dr. Magrath noted the peculiar color of his ear. Although the room was free from odor, turning down the bed-clothes brought forth the smell of illuminating gas. An examination of the blood showed it to be of the bright magenta color peculiar to victims of gas asphyxia. The ordinary color of blood encountered in autopsies is a grayish blue. Dr. Magrath went out into...
...talking picture, gave her Greta Nissen's role. In effect, Jean Harlow is a shiny refinement of Clara Bow. She is a competent though not a brilliant actress. Her contours are luxurious though slender; her face childish but engaging. Her most obvious and enticing quality is the peculiar pale thatch on top of her head. It got her her first part in the cinema, when a director noticed her standing outside a Kansas City drugstore. It caused her pressagent to invent the phrase "platinum blonde." It also caused a major revival of the hair-bleaching industry. Jean Harlow...
...income tax has its peculiar disadvantages. Incomes are subject to state as well as federal taxation, which results in the diversion of capital from production to tax-free government securities. But these are minor points in the light of the dangers of the sales tax. The tax directly affects those elements of the public most likely to make violent protest against the increased burden. Protest will hardly take from as a demand for more economical and efficient government, though it is obvious that without governmental reform the solution of the tax problem can not be permanent. But instead of demanding...
...conformity to Harvard individualism, English 28 has not only the general--and unusually irremediable--faults inherent in all survey courses, but a few peculiar to it alone. Once a pure review of the History of English literature, the course now also attempts to foster literary appreciation and to develop a critical sense. This broadened scope, theoretically admirable, has led to a confusion which defeats the purpose of the course. The lectures have little continuity nor is there any correlation between them and section work. The material treated in the various sections, moreover, differs so widely that the course is good...
...limiting of membership in the Department of History and Literature will make it possible for the field to maintain the peculiar advantages which it has long had. The personal relationship between faculty and students, and the close acquaintance among concentrators themselves, which have become a tradition in the department, have been possible only because the field has not grown large and unwieldy...