Word: peculiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slim bronze dolphin coursed the Baltic Sea one day last week, sped in a straight line for four miles with the accuracy peculiar to automobile torpedoes...
...each state the Senatorial campaign is painted with its own peculiar colors, beer v. no beer, farmers v. urbanites, slush v. purity, etc.; but the sweeping question which buzzes nationally is: "Will the Democrats be able to capture control of the next Senate?" Even in the 69th Congress, the Democrats and the insurgent Republicans, whenever they united, could outvote the regular Republicans. But actually to control the Senate and be able to organize its committees, the Democrats must have at least 49 members. They now have 39, are not in danger of losing any, because the seven Democratic vacancies...
...Hygienist Letitia Denny Fairfield of London* has just completed analysis of 900 consecutive cases of illness among London school teachers. She finds that the women were absent for illness twice as long as were the men of the same occupational groups. The difference was not due to maladies peculiar to women, but included those such as common colds, influenza, lung infections. Nervous diseases incapacitated women three times as much as men. But rheumatism and diseases of the joints affected both sexes in almost equal numbers. Against these facts is the strange one that the death rate for London men school...
...Recently, perfumes, automobiles, Florida resorts advertised as among their purchasers New York and Philadelphia bluebloods. Most advertising managers forget that the majority of Americans are neither watchmen nor bluebloods; one astute man did not. Last week appeared an advertisement captioned "Everyday Folks and Their Breakfasts." It pointed out the peculiar delicacies of puffed wheat beneath the porttrait of J. P. Coogan (Jackie's grandfather), a New York Central station master...
Obviously the peculiar organizations of the Spanish army lends itself to "old men's revolutions" of this type. For decades Spanish artillery officers have been organized in juntas (literally, "committees"; actually, glorified military trade unions); and during the World War Spanish infantry and cavalry officers similarly organized themselves. The effect has been to develop loyalty to the junta at the expense of obedience to the state, to foster intrigue among the various generals who respectively head these military cliques...