Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significance cannot be lightly explained away as the effusions of a decadent and mildly insane school of Bohemians. The growth of all living art is caused by that outer fringe of radicals, who are trying to break away from the established order and create new and more expressive modes peculiar to themselves. It is true that a great many artists who belong to this borderland quest for the new and the strange are wild eyed romantics disregarding all discipline and moderation. There are also extremists in the other direction, who impose a rigider and more inapplicable set of rules...
...estimated that over $5,000,000 was spent in Boston during the convention. That business should therefore wink at the truth is-natural. But it is a peculiar twist of public morality which leads the mayors of Boston and Cambridge to hasten to express indignation at honest and justified criticism, when their criticism could have been so much more effective had it been directed against the conditions surrounding the Legion Convention itself. A little intellectual honesty and straight thinking in public would be distinct assets to nearly all of our officials...
...different species of birds in Guatemala caused Ludlow Griscom, a Research Curator at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, to make during the past summer a special trip to Central America, from which he has just returned. Although, because of its peculiar variation in fauna, the country has been combed by ornithologists, Griscom was able to secure some very rare specimens...
...peaks which tower 2500 feet above it Here live relief species of birds not found in the rest of the country, and Griscom reports a species of "grebe" or "hell diver" found nowhere else in the world. He searched, also, for nine days in order to find a peculiar genus of fly catcher, of which only two other specimens are known to exist in the world's museums. Here, too, he not only found this bird but rediscovered another species of fly catcher, and a pygmy owl. The four towering volcanoes which surround the lake are thought to have prevented...
Thus for all routine or long continued audience. There is nothing here peculiar to absolutism or democracy. Propriety in either case demands that climactic utterances be delivered standing...