Word: peculiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem thus presented seems to rest on the development of means to train the very young mind without menace to its health and happiness. In other words the problem is one which we have to work out for ourselves. We cannot borrow the method from Europe, where the conditions peculiar to our life have not arisen. Boston Transcript...
...have, with some adaptations, voted to put it into operation at once for all the courses not of an elementary nature. Its object is to create during the academic year two reading periods aggregating seven weeks, in which there shall be--except for Freshmen, for elementary courses and other peculiar conditions--neither instruction in courses nor tutoring. The teaching force will be relieved thereby, and the student will be engaged in educating himself by assigned reading, to which he will be held by subsequent examination. These periods are to be integral part of the academic terms, in which neither students...
...everyone knows, diphtheria, highly infectious disease, affects the throat. Germs, rod-shaped, breed there and give off toxins which cause the peculiar fever. Antitoxins can allay the fever. They are made by the blood of horses which have been methodically infected with diphtheria toxin. Such antitoxins constitute one of the few remedies which have a specific effect in treating disease. Without their injection the throat of a diphtheric child (most victims are from two to ten years of age) is apt to close up through the rapid forming of a false membrane across the air passage...
...English audiences are peculiar, though," Sir Thomas continued, "In New York the house was sold out every time I conducted, and I understand it's the same here in Boston. In London you may have a full house one day, but if the sun is shining the next, only a handful of people will make its appearance. People's decisions are prompted entirely by the weather," he concluded...
Placed wisely, perhaps, in a period of little activity, is the peculiar burden imposed at this time on inventive members of the Junior Class, and their less witty and more unfortunate mates. It is a task that takes little time in execution, it is true, but being a unique and significant event in the educational molding of a man, it deserves and demands long hours of cerebration. For it is often the one time that any literary production of the author appears in print. It is the single monument of his pictorial career, and on this attempt he triumphs...