Word: peculiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Authorities who assert that President Coolidge's "I do not choose" is a dialect expression peculiar to Vermont seem to have overlooked something that ought to be familiar. Let them turn to "Alice in Wonderland." In that world-wide classic "The Walrus and the Carpenter," they will find...
...President Connolly decided that the sewer construction that had to be done in Queens was "the biggest job in the country." He told the civil service commissioners that he wanted "a man having peculiar knowledge of sewer construction" to boss the job. He said he had found just such a man in James Rice, a graduate of English Army schools, who had (according to Mr. Connolly) supervised more than $100,000,000 worth of sewer and road construction in the Far East and whose advice was constantly being sought by U. S. Sewer contractors...
Captain Biddlecomb continued by describing the peculiar system used in Germany, by which the individual municipalities rather than the central government tend to support the aerial transport routes through subsidies. "Germany," he said, "has also made rapid strides in the technical development of air craft, being forced by the limiting clauses of the Peace Treaty to obtain maximum efficiency with minimum horsepower...
...sweetest of justification for Admiral Magruder. It will be remembered that the admiral's offense was in aerating the navy's soiled linen in the Saturday Evening Post, with the implied suggestion that an early laundering would not be inappropriate. The admiral was spanked in a manner peculiar to those who go down to the flagships in launches; and his suggestions were adopted...
Writers from Goethe to Will Durant have attempted to diagnose that peculiar mental condition which in certain cases results from adolescence and scholarship. The results have been often interesting but rarely have they been successful--probably because such men as critics necessarily had to confine themselves to theories and generalities. Generalities can never adequately account for the mental repression of youth; each man is an individual and his particular psychology is the determinate factor in what eventually happens to him. Therefore it is probable that the Department of Mental Hygiene, establishing as it does personal contact with and immedate injuiry...