Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paralysis of the posterior annex" is the first symptom of "Squirmitis," a failing peculiar to spectators of double-feature programs. This annoyed announcement was made by two cinemagoing citizens of Nutley, N. J., William R. Clay and George H. Siegel, who a month ago founded the Anti Movie Double-Feature League of America, to improve local programs and revitalize their neighbors' paralyzed posteriors. Last week Founders Clay & Siegel were surprised and sobered to find their organization catapulting to national scale. The A. M. D.F. L. of A., dedicated to mass-boycotting of double bills, now boasts 65 chapters, hopes...
...more passive types of response. The persons whom he describes by way of example stand out as real, living, and yet understandable individuals, rather than as aggregates of definite amounts of intelligence, aggressiveness, motility, emotionality and other such characteristics. He accomplishes this portrayal by describing the roles of peculiar and individual traits in each personality, as well as those of the common traits found in all individuals. The methods and techniques employed in studying these patterns of interdependent traits have been devised by the exercise of great ingenuity on the part of Dr. Allport and other investigators...
Late tonight my roommate still had my shirt on. I finally asked him what we should call the maid, and he said: "Biddie." Tomorrow I must do some research to see if this is a peculiar New England appellation...
...ears affected. In this cup-eared family the earmark skipped no generation. Those who had the defect had a certain number of similar children. But those who escaped, in no case passed on the gene to children, grandchildren. So Dr. Potter concluded "There can be no doubt that the peculiar ears of this family depend upon a single dominant gene. . . . Our patient may expect to transmit ears which are abnormally formed to approximately one-half of her children. Her brothers and sisters who have similar ears will do likewise. Those who have normal ears will have children with normal ears...
...them bestirred themselves enough to go out and capture a pair of anoas, dwarf buffalo. They were beautiful anoas, about the color of Jersey cows. The male 85 lb., the female 75 Ib. The smallest of wild cattle, they belong to one of a number of rare species peculiar to Celebes and three small islands nearby.* Dutch officials were overjoyed when this latest captured pair was brought in. Forthwith the anoas were shipped off to The Netherlands Government zoo at Surbaya, Java, which generously gave them away...