Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sruwelpeter, et al., Mary Pop- pins is far above the low average of modern fairy stories, will delight readers who have been badly brought up in the matter of children's classics. But it is not another Alice in Wonderland. Mary Poppins was, to say the least, a peculiar nursemaid. She came to the Banks family on a strong east wind, and firmly refused to give any references. Though her manner was formidable, the Banks children liked her at once, hoped she would stay. She was an efficient nurse, "never wasted time in being nice," was a great...
...Bush heard John LeGrand plead guilty to a charge of grand theft. One day, while the trial was going on, the prisoner's wife came to plead for her husband. "The first time I saw Mrs. LeGrand in my chambers," said Judge Bush, "I had a peculiar feeling that our future destinies were strangely intermingled." Judge Bush sentenced LeGrand to two years in jail. Four months later Judge Bush called Convict LeGrand before him, reduced his sentence to six months. On that day Mrs. LeGrand filed suit for divorce. When her divorce was granted, Judge Bush and Mrs. LeGrand...
...collected hitherto unknown species of flightless mountain beetles, some unusual ground insects, some fine river-living beetles from 3000-4000 feet; some frogs peculiar to the region from 5000 feet to the summit; some reptiles from 3000-5000 feet; and six peripatus, a caterpillar-like insect which lives in damp tropical regions...
...federal administrators under an erroneous assumption that all such legislation must be uniform. At this stage, when there is a wide divergence of opinion on many of the details of unemployment insurance, it is necessary for the states to experiment and to discover the system best suited to their peculiar needs. It is folly for the federal government to adopt uniform legislation which shall apply to the widely divergent conditions of the various sections of the United States. While the magnitude of the reserve funds of such a program demand that the national government control their investment and liquidation, laws...
Money. "We're striving, of course, toward the time when money will be only an incidental item in our economy. [But now] we increase the money in circulation as industry grows and we have more goods. We are in the peculiar position of having more money than goods...