Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...establishment of a post at Harvard of the Veterans of Future Wars brings the movement to a point where the undergraduate body must recognize its significance as a powerful force of propaganda; a type of propaganda, which, of peculiar nature, is as yet untried. Yet because of that peculiar nature it can be easily side-tracked into a miserable fiasco. Such a failure would bitterly justify the paternal comment that "the kids are just playing the parts of Harlequins...
...reasons for the petition may be found in the somewhat peculiar situation of Eastern lines generally. Their greatest carrying burden is over expensive short hauls, a major proportion of their charges are extremely high. Since the task of the I. C. C. is one of reconstruction, rather than destruction ,the Commission would adopt a sensible course if they listened to the pleas of the most interested parties, and adopt the compromise as a test measure for a limited period of time. In matters of such importance to the railroads and to the public, the Commission should make haste slowly...
Such disgraceful affairs are not peculiar to any political group, as we have had them under all kinds of administrations in the past, and as for keeping the military out of civilian politics - this insults the intelligence of any one who reads or has served in our military forces. Too bad our men in high places can't think and live in terms of Americanism and fairness instead of in terms of rather small and putrid politics...
...term when those people who have been buried under piles of work in the University Library and such haunts of learning for the past few weeks begin to tire and take to giving parties instead. One is now daily besieged with invitations to luncheons, teas, sherry, dinner, and more peculiar functions. Work is temporarily put in the background, to be reinstated as an immediate reality when we find at the beginning of next term that these all-important yearly exams are only a month ahead. But for the present gaiety is king...
Rightists to such a point that a Nationalist newspaper once greeted him editorially with "Blum! Blum! Blum! Your name is like the sound of bullets entering a traitor's breast. Blum! Blum! Blum!" Last week the peculiar detestation Leon Blum is capable of arousing nearly cost him his life and sent France careening around a sharp, dangerous political curve. In a car driven by Socialist Deputy Georges Monnet and with Mme Monnet at his side, Socialist Blum edged too close to a Royalist funeral procession. The militant mourners were young, cane-swinging stalwarts of the Action Franchise, supporters...