Word: peculiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turn to pleasanter things, let us conclude this survey by a consideration of the peculiar virtues of Harvard's "Rules for Concentration and Distribution." The chief advantage of the Harvard plan is this; from the end of his Freshman year, the Harvard student knows roughly what he is going to do with the rest of his college course. He does not stumble aimlessly about changing his plans--if he has any--from year to year and harried continually by the necessity of meeting the "requirements". He is also assigned a tutor who performs for him the invaluable service of correlating...
...round, and getting nowhere except in Soviet Russia, which is east of Europe and therefore does not count. Red footstools, red neckties, intentionally crude cartoons, stuffy parlors and garrets, late hours, morose arguments, "long-haired men and short-haired women," dirty fingernails and a strange courage, are among the peculiar properties of Socialism...
Animal Variations. Dr. Frank Collins Baker, curator of the museum of natural history of the University of Illinois, found in a Wisconsin artificial lake several species of shellfish peculiar to fresh running water. At the end of the lake where streams entered, the mollusks had remained true to type. At the other, their shells had thickened; grown stubbier. This situation apparently proved that environment produces new varieties in low-grade forms of life...
Last week the townspeople and critics moved through the Institute gallery with a soft murmuring whistle that is peculiar to museums and to the carpeted anterooms of cinema theatres. Near the three prize-winning pictures-a "Still Life" by Henri Matisse, "Motherhood" by Anto Carte, Andrew Dasburg's "Poppies"-there were small, stirring ponds of faces. There were puddles of them under many other pictures: Italian Antonio Donghi's study of three enigmatic figures, called "Carnival," which received first honorable mention; "Two Figures," languid, graceful girls painted by Bernard Karfiol of Manhattan, honorable mention. Then there were...
...special study of the Mining Geology department this year is the microscopic structure of ores. A special petrographic microscope is employed, by means of which the peculiar properties of various ores can be analyzed. The distance of a given sample of ore from a center of oxidation, where the ore is most concentrated, can be estimated in this...