Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emphasize the gradual drift of Der Führer away from the Party's economic radicals: Dr. Goebbels, Dr. Richard-Walther Darre, Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Robert Ley. Leader of the German Labor Front and Herr Wilhelm Keppler, an engineer who has had for three years the peculiar title of "Personal Economic Adviser to Adolf Hitler." These Tugwells of the Nazi regime have long been slipping and 36 hours after Göring took over last week Engineer Keppler was dismissed by Der Führer...
This affliction of mankind runs back into the mists of antiquity. Some scholars believe that the ancient Jews knew about syphilis and that this disease and its peculiar transmission were referred to in the Second Commandment: For I the Lord Thy God ama jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. The Greeks, in a dim, foggy way, described ailments contracted by unclean intercourse. The Romans were among the first to develop a sense of shame in connection with venereal diseases and said as little about...
...only method of obtaining these data is by expensive airplane fights or balloon ascents at intervals of hours or days; these do not give a continuous record and are not practicable in bad weather when records are most needed. They are well on their way towards ironing out the peculiar effects a mountain has on the atmosphere over it and towards producing the valuable steady "free" air readings of temperature, humidity, pressure, and wind velocity at high altitudes...
Depreciation alone could produce results rapidly enough during the crisis of 1933-34. Three years of sindy have convinced the author of this volume that in the peculiar conditions of 1931-3 depreciation was the correct policy. In 1933 he had not been so sure of that position...
...volume to his "Education of Henry Adams." In the two works the great historian-artist-philosopher set out to contrast, the unity of the middle ages with the individualism of the present day. Neither was written for general consumption but rather as an intellectual exercise for the author's peculiar benefit. They are thus full of ripe personal wisdom and illumined by the brilliant yet wary genius of the man Adams...