Word: peculiarity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, is in the peculiar situation of being a hybrid university. It is private in most respects, but it has financial dependence on the state. This makes Rutgers University more uneasy about its actions than some private schools, but not so fearful of direct interference as most state universities...
Akeley quashed one charge against him when he said, "The last time I were shorts down town was nine years ago." But President Ashby said that the Akeleys had been indoctrinating students with "their own peculiar ideas of democracy...
Although committee reports do not tell the whole story about a man's interest in his work as a Council member, they do point up the peculiar opportunity which an elected Council member has for doing something useful. Last year, for example, under the leadership of David C. Poskanzer '50, the Council's Education Committee turned out a report which required keen interest and active leadership. By comparison, this year's Education Committee has done little. Its outstanding project is the publication at this late date of the results of polls on General Education courses and a report on section...
...Order & Progress." As an army officer, Dutra was part of an institution which has occupied a peculiar position in Brazilian politics. The army has always identified itself with the motto on Brazil's flag: "Order and Progress." This has meant, by & large, an affinity for the democracy which has characterized the country's modern history. It was the army which took over the republican movement from the disgruntled ex-slaveholders and overthrew Dom Pedro II in 1889. The first two Presidents under the republic's U.S.-patterned constitution were army officers. After that, under a long line...
...seemed to him that he had never been filled with such peculiar feelings. Conscious that his roommate would want to know where he had been, he did his best to account for the experience. But the moment was too full--thought was impossible and Vag found the new sensation delightful indeed. He was aware that any attempted thought would break the spell immediately. This was the moment for which he was meant. Dropping deeper into the aesthetic whole, he toyed with one shoelace in an effort to prolong the experience, but all of a sudden, the experience was over...