Word: peculiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Humming a little tune, Governor Johnston received the petition and read it through. Mrs. Hammonds stood at his elbow listening, then moved briskly back to her desk. Governor Johnston frowned at the incomplete list of signatures and said: "This is peculiar conduct for men who claim to be in good faith. . . . Well, boys, I'm much obliged to you and I'll look it over...
...only one fourth of the students in the graduate schools of Columbia were men whose capabilities justified their quest for a degree was the substance of a report made public by Doctor Frederick E.J. Woodbridge, Dean of the Graduate Faculties of Columbia. In his opinion this proportion is not peculiar to Columbia, but is typical of the graduate school situation throughout the United States. His statements are based not on conjecture, but on the figures supplied by the registrar of the university. Only 35 per cent of those who matriculate into the graduate schools of Columbia ever gain their degrees...
...Business School has a peculiar need for private parking space, as no parking is allowed in the drive of the Business School grounds, nor on Memorial Drive between the School and the Charles River. Another handicap to parking is an ordinance forbidding the parking of cars on North Harvard street, between the Business School and the Stadium...
...Mark Sullivan has once more come forth with a volume which psycho-analyzes in terms of newspaper headlines, once current fads and fancies, forgotten manias, previous eras of the United States. He has written not exactly a history but rather the evolution of a popular mentality. Having begun this peculiar method of examination in "The Turn-Of-A-Century" the first part of that work called in entirely "Our Times", he continues it in the second part, "America Finding Herself...
...visit Cambridge knew the old tree by reputation and by photographs of it in history boks. As a monument the tree became a landmark, and, having a good deal more personality and atmosphere about it than an artificial statue could have had, it was invested with a peculiar symbolism. Now that it has gone, the suggestion is made that it is worth commemorating by a replica of itself in concrete...