Word: peculiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Ellison is at the same time one of the most awkward and the most effective of hockey players. With a peculiar gait, comparable perhaps to that displayed by great open field runners such as Grange and Mahan, he moves up the ice at a speed that is not apparent from the spectators' seats. On the defensive, his tremendous reach, his weight and his aggressiveness make him effective if not graceful. Coady, who will report for hockey after a two weeks lay-off, is of all the Crimson skaters the least versatile, but he makes up, in the excellence...
...unfortunate gastronomical situation is not peculiar to Harvard alone if one agrees with Thurston Macauley, writing in the current Forum. In an article mournfully titled "The Decline of Eating in America," Mr. Macauley says "Eating on this side of the Atlantic has become one of the lost arts." The problem Harvard faces also seems to be a national one--the result of America's special ogre, standardization. Cursing cafeterias and similar quick lunch places whose proud boast is a meal a minute, the epicure goes on to comment regretfully on the days when dinners were both edifying and edible. Like...
...mass sales, they tend to stock only standardized products and to slight the buyer who has personal whims. Portland shopkeepers, who make a point of such individual service and thus attain the fascination of the English and French shops, have grouped as the Greater Portland Association to advertise their peculiar advantages...
...Cochran, London theatrical producer. No longer is the Mayfair patois spoken in England; instead one hears "the language of Broadway". Titled ladies, grown weary of formalisms, delight in this latest vogue. And the new rich are cured of dropping their his only to affect a dialed peculiar to the characters created by Mr. Ring Laidner. There ought, says the patriotic producer...
...gentlemen who marketed four-fifths of the $7,500,000,000 corporation and government securities placed in the U. S. during 1925, met at Quebec last week as the Investment Bankers Association. They gathered as much for mutual acquaintance as for conference on their peculiar problems. Investment banking has grown to be of vast complexity, and depends much upon personal relations. Issuing houses buy bonds wholesale, which they job to their retail correspondents. These in turn sell such securities directly to investors...