Word: peculiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great scroll inscribed in flowery Farsit the Soviet Assembly of Tadjikistan recently despatched to Moscow a formal notice of their wish to hop up a grade in the peculiar national hierarchy of the Soviet Union. They were already the Autonomous Republic of Tadjikistan, They would now like to make use of their "autonomy" to proclaim themselves the Independent Republic of Tadjikistan. Would that be all right? Last week Dictator Stalin signified that it would. Straightway grateful Tadjiks changed the name of their capital from Diushambe to Stalinabad...
...individual hatreds. To any one raised in the usual American atmosphere of optimistic trust that a democracy chooses the best men for its offices, there is a terrific shock in the spectacle now being played in Boston. One candidate remarks "The people of Boston have elected some peculiar figures in the past but they have never elected a consummate liar": another wields witty puns on the straight and the Curley; charges break from harmless general statements and turn to reciprocal specific slanders...
While there will be many common problems which the directors of these schools will be able to discuss, the very divergence in type among the summer schools will give rise to new viewpoints and methods, peculiar to individual institutions, which may prove beneficial for the delegates to the conference. The results of this meeting will help to solve some of the difficulties which confront a branch of the educational system which is growing ever more popular...
...dentists found the President in a better mood, they would have been interested, when he smiled, in his teeth. On the left side the upper molars are worn down, presumably by chewing pipes and cigars, to a peculiar slant which helped earn him his campaign sobriquet of "Beaver...
Proud and peculiar is Mr. Warren's concept of the roles of architect and client. He might have been speaking of any of his achievements when he said of the Library of Louvain : "As the architect and artist of the building I possess the right to insist that it shall be constructed as planned, and even after the completion of the building I have the right to insist that the structure shall remain as I built it!" Architect Warren planned to top the library with a heavy balustrade of floral pillars so shaped and intertwined as to spell...