Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME shines in its own peculiar sphere in publishing the article, [ Harvard | "Class of 1911," by tennis expert John R. Tunis. Aside from the slightly Pharisaical motive which the author's labors seem to suggest, Tunis shows the same astonishingly naïve curiosity as to why even Harvard men hate President Roosevelt, as was expressed in a recent magazine article by co-operatives expert Marquis W. Childs. Both gentlemen should hark back to such Rooseveltian phrases as "hatred of entrenched greed." "unscrupulous money changers." "discredited special interests.'' "resplendent economic autocracy,'1 "enslavement for the public...
...popularized the idea that U. S. citizens speak a tongue of their own. Eleven years ago the University of Chicago asked slight, bearded Professor Sir William Alexander Craigie, since 1901 co-editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, to collect in definitive form the words that have meanings and currency peculiar to the U. S. Last week in Chicago appeared the first section, A-to-Baggage, of his long-awaited Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles* When complete the Dictionary will be as bulky as a Webster's Unabridged, will sell...
...makers of that essential giant, the locomotive, it is by far the oldest (founded 1831). In 1929 it outsold American Locomotive, its big competitor. But long before 1929, Baldwin, in common with makers of cars, couplings, air brakes, signals and other railroad necessities, had felt the effects of the peculiar industrial dependence under which they operate. Good or bad, the railroad equipment business varies as the square of the railroad business. When U. S. railroading lapsed into a quiet period of consolidation after the War, the business of equipping railroads became not merely quiet, but definitely dull. After...
...demonstration was not, however, the most striking evidence of the peculiar power of gold over Depression. The Philippines has not only a gold boom but also a mining stock boom, and last week its fine frenzy was augmented because it had virtually been given an official blessing by no less a person than strutty little Manuel Quezon, President of the Commonwealth...
Most notable quality about the girl characters in Spring Dance is their idiom, said to be peculiar to Smith's Dawes House. To be "smit" is to be in love. A "thicket" is what was formerly known as a necking party. "Plent" signifies pleasant. Critics agreed that Spring Dance is "plent" rather than plausible...