Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also made by Commissioner Eastman was a grave, if well-considered, charge. By the time debt-ridden MOP flopped into the courts in 1933, it had paid $3,200,000 on account for the terminal properties. On the books this was first lumped in a peculiar railroad account called "unauthorized work." Later it was carried as a "special deposit," a current asset. The funds were indeed deposited in Guaranty Trust Co. but for the benefit of Terminal Shares, not MOP. Last week the railroad's officials tried to explain that they never intended to convey the impression that...
...that moving pictures are the universal diversion of the American people, excepting not even fishing, novel reading, or golf, the function of the cinema critic assumes a peculiar importance. There is no denying the fact that the audience is the best critic, and sometimes it can stay away most expressively, but it lacks the most valuable asset of the professional and individual critic in that it cannot be constructive...
...soon S--knocks and off with him to a strange place in the Square. Fairly pulled by S--; he has something for me to see. Two long flights of creaky stairs. Down a corridor. A sharp turn to the left, and in a small door, where the most peculiar pile of wood and metal I ever saw. Large box-like things around the room; men working with copper wire at little tables. An air of order and quiet. S--informs me these are the studios of the Harvard Forest. Laughing lightly at my quizzical look, he adds that the Harvard...
Rhode Island, however, presents a peculiar problem in that the Keaneymen use a man to man defence on the entire floor instead of dropping back into defense position once they have lost the ball. They are one of the two or three teams in the country which use this system of defense. The Crimson, on the other hand, falls back into the more conventional defense position and uses a rotating offense instead of the break...
Several years ago the physicist Jansky discovered a peculiar static signal that appeared to come from the center of the galactic system. The cause of this phenomenon has never been definitely affirmed, and yesterday's revelations shed a good deal of light on the subject...