Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, a great & good friend: Per Albin Hansson, leader of the 90 Social Democrats. Although they are numerically much the largest party, they cannot form their own Cabinet because a whole pack of fractional factions would join with the Conservatives to oust a Socialist Government. In these peculiar circumstances last week Carl Gustaf Ekman seemed to be the best tail King Gustaf could have chosen to wag the Swedish dog. Irt 1926, in similar circumstances, His Majesty made the Great Templar Prime Minister for the first time, and Tail Ekman then wagged Sweden very satisfactorily until 1928, when...
...longer a factor in determining a man's status in a community, whether he is honest or not in this respect," the editorial remarked. But, it continued, "In view of the fact that daily tests and examinations are peculiar to college life, cheating under these circumstances becomes a local problem. It is not safe to assume that a man who cheats in them will inevitably fail in future trials of his honesty...
This is a letter of gratitude. I have been amusing myself this winter by taking a correspondence course in Versification. After a time there came a lesson on tumbling alliterative verse. This is a very peculiar form and requires a subject rather out of the ordinary. It rolls along in voluminous strides, and I was at my wit's end for something to write about. It seems to me that it was in February while reading your magazine that I chanced upon a little paragraph telling about an elephant's stampede in India. Here I thought...
...some unaccountable reason," writes Backgammoner Nicholas, "opponents at backgammon indulge themselves in mental and emotional activities to an extraordinary degree and far beyond anything that the play of this simple game seems to require. . . . The extent of these manifestations seems to be peculiar to backgammon...
...work pleasantly demonstrating shade-and-shadow effects on a greensward. Mr. Carter also won the figure-composition first prize with his Ezra Davenport, a portrait of a stolid York-state farmer. Second in this category was Mrs. Anna Tenggren, Artist, painted by her friend Elmer Brubeck, who employed a peculiar baboon blue in the delineation of Mrs. Tenggren's mouth and chin...