Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Almost immediately after there came the sound of thousands of heavy rain drops on a stiff canvas or like the cracking of innumerable small whips; all this punctuated by a peculiar bizz, bizz, whizz sound like someone whistling in surprise. I could not help making the inward remark, 'I knew war was tought, but look here, boys; isn't this a bit too rough?' It seemed that the Germans had exploded a mine under one of our trenches, then opened a violent fusillade to capture what remained of it. Being second-line troops just arrived from resting up, we were...
...cast is the primary virtue of "So Long Letty." Oliver Morosco has gathered together such people as Charlotte Greenwood, Sydney Grant, Walter Catlett and Frances Cameron, with well-laid plans. They all have an unexplainable faculty of "getting across" just what they want and it will be a peculiar audience which will not be at their feet for three hours, in more ways than one. Charlotte Greenwood, with her excessively long legs and arms and her naivete is about as ridiculously attractive as one could hope...
...Yale practice this afternoon consisted of another peculiar turn, for Coach Guy Nickalls lined up a heterogeneous crew which he himself stroked, and went after the first Yale eight. Nickalls' combination was too much for Captain Low and the other regulars, for after a nip and tuck race, the Yannigan eight pulled ahead and won by a fair length. The line of this victorious crew was as follows: Stroke, Guy Nickalls; 7, Wyman; 6, Abbott; 5, Campbell; 4, Cobb; 3, Whitney; 2, Rand; bow, Lasher...
...view, military camps were organized to train intelligent men as officers. Parallel with this movement, there is now growing up the feeling of a need for some arrangement to provide trained men for emergency officers in the navy. Surely there is no fallacy in this idea, for the peculiar situation of the United States, between two oceans, emphasizes the importance of an efficient navy. The proposed cruise of four weeks should serve well the triple function which is announced...
...being planned. A general resume of the whole year will be given in two or three pages so that the important events may be learned at a glance. There will be fullpage drawings before the major and minor sports sections and the miscellaneous part which will depict phases peculiar to each group. Special articles on boxing, wrestling and the Regiment, illustrated with photographs, will be added...