Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their way back into Nazi Germany. Harsh awakening came at the border where waited Nazi border police. No Nazi is permitted to wear a Nazi uniform outside of Germany, but these pious Nazi youths had worn, while genuflecting before Pope Pius, the livery of Adolf Hitler-thus committing a peculiar sort of Nazi lèse-majesté. At the border the returning youths were set upon, their uniforms roughly seized and ropes tied around their Catholic middles in imitation of St. Francis of Assisi. Scattered in the scuffle were Holy Year medals, rosaries, scapulars and prayer leaflets...
...trading floor boomed not once-the signal for trading to begin-but five times. High up in the visitor's gallery an official uprose to bellow that the market would not open until later in the morning. At 12:30 it was announced that because of peculiar circumstances the market would not open...
Every broker knew what the "peculiar circumstances" were: with 4,000,000 bu. of wheat, rye, corn and oats, Rosenbaum Grain Corp. had gone to the wall the previous afternoon. The scarcity of wheat caused by Drought had eaten into Manny Rosenbaum's warehouse business. Income from storing other people's wheat (1½? a month per bu.) had sunk out of sight; in its place was a heavy drain on cash for upkeep and taxes. And loans from banks were large. Rosenbaum Grain Corp. filed petitions in Delaware's and Chicago's Federal Courts...
...chief slave girl was the go-between and she informed the lucky girl of the honor that awaited her. ... A new career was opened to her. ... In other ways, too, it was a momentous time. Only virgins were sold as slaves, and although life in the harem-with its peculiar atmosphere, preoccupations and hopes-had left them none but a physical innocence, still each royal caprice changed the slave forever...
Elsewhere in the CRIMSON are far more eloquent testimonials than we could ever pen to one of Harvard's most distinguished and best loved figures. That his former pupils, writing years after graduation, still retain a vivid picture of Copey as an individual, and still appreciate his peculiar abilities as a teacher, is to those who know him praise more fitting than surprising...