Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very dense fog, board his schooner and pilot him into San Francisco that memorable morning in 1906 when he arrived from Hawaii. It may be of interest to you and perhaps some of the old-timers in the yachting fraternity to know the true facts in this rather peculiar occurrence...
...took to wife Portuguese Princess Catherine de Braganza, remain in force. One of these obligations, the Foreign Office gravely announced, is that Britain ''if need be" must go to the aid of Portugal "with a warship carrying at least ten culverins." Culverins were long cannons with peculiar serpent-like adornments much esteemed in the 16th and 17th Centuries...
...spirit with the body of an earthly infant of five to eight weeks. "The act," reports Spirit Brandon, "requires the physician to see, in his mind's eye, the spinal cord of both the child and the soul who is to incarnate. The physician can, with a little peculiar visualization, merge the two." For successful incarnation, says Brandon, training is necessary and many a spirit will give up for good his chance to return to Earth rather than attempt to "learn how to control his vibrations...
...report, sent it to Washington without comment. On the basis of three samplings, a month apart, it appeared that about one-third of all margin accounts were "restricted" (i. e., frozen). These restricted accounts also represented one-third of all securities held on margin, indicating that freezing was not peculiar to little fellows...
...INVISIBLE VOICES-M. P. Shiel- Vanguard ($2.50). Those who can retain their wits in a bout with Author Shiel's peculiar development of prose, his highly individualistic use of punctuation, may find diversion in his latest romantic mystery...