Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valuable new secret about ordinary lead, which has been kept from scientists by a peculiar feature, is that the relative proportions of the isotopes of this metal vary from sample to sample. Isotopes are atoms of the same element which differ in weight...
...undo the work of Washington, Madison and the other founding fathers is to deride as "another how!" the anxious protests of those who see their most cherished liberties about to be legislated away. The Tribune errs dangerously when it adopts even for a moment the mudslinging tactics formerly peculiar only to labor leaders. When we reflect let us remember that temporary lapses like the Tribune's may tend to become permanent and that this is no time for any loosening of the coalition which is protecting honest business from the inquisitorial activities of the National Labor Relations Board...
...mosaics have a peculiar quality to them which means that a special process to reproduce this quality is needed. In making the great works of art, the cartoon was first painted on the plaster and the cubes were pressed into it while still wet. The artists engaged in this project were far advanced in technique. They understood well the value of gold in their backgrounds for an effect of space filled with light, and they learned to incline all the cubes slightly forward to meet directly the line of sight from below, thus gaining the utmost in clearness and brilliance...
...said. "Lawyers should acquaint themselves with other aspects of our civilization--art, literature, and music. The chief present need is for men with broad vision who will keep the law functioning adequately." At the same time Mr. Landis expressed his disgust for the American passion for formalistic training--the "peculiar belief" that you've to take a course in a subject to learn anything...
...first suspected that infected sweet corn might have caused the epidemic when she noticed a peculiar discoloration on the stalks of corn in the St. Louis region. She took some of the corn back to her laboratory, fed it to rats and a monkey. The animals developed encephalitis symptoms-stiff necks, nervousness, paralysis-finally died...