Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organization it persists only for the ends of bleeding the public till, and if its size and electoral importance were to decline, our dignity might move us to abolish it and stop the mouths of its arch prophets. But beneath all of its baroque the Legion serves a peculiar and a useful purpose. Military conscription and World's Fairs conspire with it in showing the yokels a good time, in letting them see how pleasant and inspiriting the habits of the more opulent and urban members of our race actually...
...neutral oxygen atom in the high solar atmosphere and under a peculiar state of excitation has been definitely found to coincide with analysis of three of the strongest coronal lines. For years "coronium" a purely hypothetical element, had been considered the cause of the radiations from the sun's corona, just as the light of nebulae was long attributed to the mythical "nebulium...
...LIMITATIONS OF SCIENCE-]. W. N. Sullivan-Viking ($2.75). Many plain men are puzzled, irritated or tantalized about Science and would like to know what it is up to. But scientists in general, their noses close to their peculiar grindstones, either have no interest in showing visitors through the mill or talk such a Hottentot lingo of pure mathematics that the plain man can make no sense of it. If it were not for such bilingual scientists as Bertrand Russell, James Jeans, Arthur Eddington, J. B. S. Haldane, the flimsy bridge between modern science and modern life would be made...
...having run off with the funds of the party, such as they were. Before one dismisses too lightly the chance of resurrection, one should cast a glance at the humble beginnings of the Nazi party, which all Germany thought squelched after the ridiculous beer-hall putsch, when a peculiar loon named Hitler jumped on a table, fired three shots into the ceiling, and proclaimed the Revolution, whose end came a few moments later with the arrival of government troops. CASTOR...
...Every peasant, in order to retain his status, must be "honorable"- the requisite degree of honor being defined as ''honorable enough to pay his debts if he is able to do so after proper administration of his land." Peasants who flagrantly cheat their creditors will suffer a peculiar penalty: the cheater's estate will pass while he is yet living to his heir. If the heir turns out to be a cheat, his heir gets the estate, and so on until an "honorable peasant" is found to hold the homestead...