Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blue shirts, to improve the background. One S. A. Hamid, a Hindu, got his picture taken because he wore a picturesque beard, but he was soon beaten. Only 10% of the players used the old-fashioned penholder grip. Their rackets were faced with rubber, not sand or wood. The peculiar patter of the balls sounded like a storm of hollow hail, interrupted by happy squeals of "Good shot!" and "Beauty!" or disappointed grunts...
...marriages contracted without this State, which would be valid by the laws of the country in which the same were contracted, are valid in this State." This, however, is a principle of law which has been in effect in most English-speaking countries for centuries and is not peculiar to California. You will note that the first section referred to makes the marriages mentioned "illegal and void.'' They are thus classed with incestuous and bigamous marriages and are distinct from those marriages which are merely voidable and which may be annulled and from those marriages which...
...housing plans at Harvard and Yale have brought to the fore the problem of the social adjustment of the freshman to his college environment. Difficulty of transition from a preparatory school dormitory to the new college units may become greater as the Houses develop characteristics peculiar to themselves. At Harvard the method of inducting freshmen into the plan has been selected as much in accordance with the exigencies of building as with the considered needs of first year men. Exeter, by initiating a new system of housing, has made the necessary adjustment; other preparatory schools should make similar provisions. Revision...
...admiration of Saint-Beuve was shown early in his widely acclaimed works on Emerson, Lee, and Pepys; ever since that time, with amazing versatility, he has continued to lay bare the souls of obscure and misunderstood characters. Despite justified charges of superficiality, his popularity attracted imitators, but the peculiar intimacy of his style defied duplication; his creation has remained definitely his own. As the rehabilitators of "damaged souls" he has won a unique position among biographers and an unusual hold on his readers...
...associate-edited The Freeman and the first American Caravan. Ill health forced him to desert the Caravan. He lives with his wife and two sons in Westport, Conn. Generally conceded one of America's few serious critics, Critic Brooks takes as the theme of all his work the peculiar opportunities and disabilities of U. S. literati. Of his study of Emerson, he says: "What I wished to convey was a convincing and joyously infectious image of genius . . . meeting and solving . . . the problems that had appeared insoluble in my other cases." His contagiously enthusiastic case history of Emerson is the April...