Word: peculiare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matters pertaining to the behavior of students in public there is one point which, aside from all general warnings, merits frequent repetition. When a student enters Harvard he takes upon himself the responsibility of conducting himself like a Harvard man at all times. Because of the peculiar reputation of Harvard's name any act committed by one of the students bears a tremendous news value in the metropolitan press. Any story pertaining to the University is immediately overated merely because it concerns Harvard; it is a delight for most city editors to attach a riot story for instance...
...thallium's peculiar properties is that it causes hair to fall out. Foolish women and masquerading criminals use it as a depilatory. For a while some orphan asylums used thallium pastes and pills to bare the heads of children infected with ringworm of the scalp...
Chatter like this in the advertising columns of New York newspapers is one reason why Macy's sold $99,000,000 worth of goods in 1930. Dating from 1927, this particular brand of chatter helped revolutionize that vast peculiar world known as the department store business. Its heroine is a chic, young spinster named Margaret ("Marne") Fishback who last week celebrated the fifth anniversary of her Macy employment by publishing a book of poems...
...evidence that Japan has made no honest effort to exhaust all possible peaceable means of settlement; that she has deliberately chosen the old-fashioned strong-arm method; that in doing so she has violated (in spirit, if not in letter) her international obligations. On these matters there is a peculiar unanimity of agreement. Now the issue up to us and the rest of the world is just this: "Can we afford to let any nation get away with this sort of thing...
...dividing partitions throughout the building have been constructed of cinder concrete blocks which have a sound-absorbing effect that will be of great value in this type of building. In addition to the acoustical value of these blocks, they possess great tensile strength and a peculiar toughness which permits a flexibility of use for laboratory work...