Word: peculiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Former Sultan Mulai-Abd-el-Hafid (1908-12) first recognized the peculiar fitness of "Mokri the Blind" for this post after he himself had become wearied by the necessity of personally inspecting hundreds of quite unpresentable maidens, merely because custom decreed that the Sultan alone of men should actually look upon the women with whom he might elect to consort. When it was noised about that "Mokri the Blind" had gradually developed his sense of touch to a point where it was almost equally discriminative with the Sultan's practiced eye, the entire responsibility of making a preliminary choice among...
...which generations of visitors have declaimed, finds decennial expression in the national census. Bigness, as such, furnishes a goal to strive for, a competition open to the spawning aggregations of humanity called cities. That any particular merit attaches to sheer size has not been proven; nevertheless a community feels peculiar pride that its census takers had to count high...
...jury deliberated, returned a verdict of not guilty. Lawyer Darrow had again gilded his unique reputation by securing an acquittal against heavy odds, emphasizing by repetition his statement that "courts are cockpits in which lawyers may fight." There is a peculiar consistency in his defense of the hopelessly lost, of the rich and poor alike, of the underdog who is under because of inexorable gyrations of fate, which indicates that his motives are of noble origin. Or perhaps the grey and stooped veteran laughs behind his ugly face when he sees the jury succumbing to his harangue...
...Owners. While the jockeys, obedient to the voice that barked at them from the starter's platform, worked into line at the head of the stretch, their sleeves flashing, their caps bobbing, ten millionaires watched their maneuvers with an intimate and peculiar interest. They were the owners- all rich then, but nine of them due to be poorer in a few minutes. There were W. R. Coe, Standard oil mines; Colonel Bradley, who once owned the Del Prado hotel in Chicago and whose racing stable, the Idle Hour Farm, has derived many benefits from a clothing store he formerly...
Coffee was peculiar. Its value went up to $286,212,000 (15% increase), but the imported quantity shrank to 641,800 tons (9% decrease...