Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reader of LIFE, I recognize it as being ostensibly devoted to the pictorial arts, and am willing to permit it an artist's freedom in the use of words. But as a reader of TIME, I have learned to expect notably correct writing. Consequently when that peculiar word photogenic showed itself in LIFE some time ago, I was inclined to be lenient. Now that it has appeared in TIME (Oct. 25, p. 25), I am inclined to protest...
...mother's side and an uncle-by-marriage. Three weeks ago they assailed the Vagabond's serenity (at that time he was tasting the wicked but delectable fruits of a class-cutting spree) by sending him letters on the same day. Each letter demanded in slightly officious terms, peculiar to the writing of middle-aged college men, that he obtain a ticket to the Harvard-Yale game for "your loving Cousin Arthur" and for "your ever-faithful Uncle Henry, as a favor for which I shall always be indebted...
...carefully drawn so that technically it is not directed against Russia, and for that matter Russia is not technically behind the Comintern-these two transparent subterfuges nicely balancing each other. Last week in Rome, while Moscow was celebrating Bolshevism's 20th birthday as a State (see above), a peculiar ceremony was performed. It did not suit II Duce simply to bring Italy into the anti-Comin-tern Pact of Germany and Japan under the clause which permits any country to join them. If Italy was going to join she had to have something special, and this was what last...
...health go hand in hand. But so called humor with a cruel or perverted twist cannot be tolerated here, and the Department is justified in taking every possible step to apprehend the guilty parties and to punish them severly. In short, funny ha-ha is welcome, necessary; funny peculiar is taboo...
Advantages to be gained from an active position on the CRIMSON are innumerable, but paramount among them is the resultant knowledge of the University. Because of the peculiar nature of newspaper work, in a large university like Harvard, every incident, change of policy, athletic event, in short, any happening concerning that university must be known about by such a newspaper. From striving towards this goal, members of the boards, candidates for membership, become steadily better acquainted with the college and the way in which it is governed. In no other activity can these advantages be realized to such an extent...