Word: peculiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suicides out of the river and the canals of Berlin daily, but never one sufficiently clad", summarizes perfectly the material misery. But perhaps worse is the ever increasing moral dissolution. In addition to the impetus bodily misery always gives to moral delinquency, there is that national isolation of thought peculiar to a country which has no sound economic relations with the rest of the world. Germany today cannot afford any foreign newspapers, magazines or books; it can hardly afford to print its own. Such a situation directly affects the intellectual and conservative middle classes which are the backbone...
...whether or not this is the case, surely Harvard College is able to duplicate, if not improve, the course which seems at present peculiar to one of its smaller contributing preparatory schools...
...whether this article makes a good case or not, but that it should be written at all". Perhaps I misinterpret 'this remark--certainly it sounds rather extraordinary to me. Then he puts quotations around the word "Cultural". I trust I am wrong in thinking that they indicate a peculiar tone of voice...
...that committee had displayed. He could not help feeling that the ability and success which Colonel Roosevelt had shown in this, the first of his official tasks, in Washington, was of a character which would not only bring joy and pride to his father's heart, but a peculiar satisfaction to all his father's old friends...
This motion of the sun is not peculiar, for, contrary to the earlier conceptions, all "fixed" stars appear in motion. The static universe of the ancients has become dynamic, and the astronomer may wait centuries for correct conclusions in regard to those motions of the more distant stars. Three things, however, seem well established as a result of study of both proper motions and radial velocities. These are: (1) the motion of the sun in space above mentioned; (2) the common motion of certain groups or clusters of stars, the two most notable examples of which are the Taurus...