Word: particular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Suggested steps for getting a job: 1) buy a loose-leaf notebook; 2) keep a record of findings about yourself and possible careers; 3) prepare yourself for a particular career before you start hunting...
With no pretense of presenting an international expert's data and conclusions, Earle's book is nevertheless a valuable and very readable account of what happened before the lamps of Europe died once more. And of particular importance to Harvard, Blackout reveals what an undergraduate would see, hear, and feel of a war-bound Europe...
...years in the White House, when he had had trouble sleeping, it had been Mr. Hoover's habit to turn on the light and read for an hour or two-reading methodically through all the works on a particular period in the history of Egypt, all the volumes of Hakluyt's Voyages-as if he hoped to calm his mind with facts. Back at Stanford he prowled through the massive accumulation of facts in the Hoover War Library-the extraordinary collection then stored away in the basement of the Stanford library, with 175,000 books and pamphlets...
Unions like this one do more than wreak havoc in their own particular industries; they besmirch the name of the entire labor movement. If allowed to go on as they are now, they will ultimately work their own destruction, but in the debacle they may ruin the drama as an art. Playwright and flyman alike have a heavy stake in cleaning up the mess...
...Supreme Court. It is perhaps permissible to suggest that this is a wrong approach to his philosophy of the judicial function. His effort has always been to persuade the Supreme Court to the realization that it is the road to creativeness as well as an obstacle to particular types of experiment. He has sought, like the two great predecessors in whose place he now sits, to warn the Court against becoming the third, and final chamber of the legislatures...