Word: particular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rules foster "featherbedding and loafing," but never supplied a solid example to document the charge or a solid specific on how the authority to change the rules would be used. When Mediator Taylor asked Bethlehem Steel Negotiator John Morse to explain just how the work rules created problems in particular mills, Morse replied that he was "afraid the panel would get bogged down in details." Retorted Taylor: "Well, we're sure getting bogged down in generalities...
...previous seventeen Regattas had been won fifteen times by Americans. In both this event and in the Grand, it seemed that Oxford's Isis crews were the outstanding threat to the Crimson. For the first time in years, Oxford was represented not only by eights drawn from a particular college but by crews drawn from almost the entire University. In both events, Isis was largely an unknown quantity and avoided brushes and publicity, largely due to the discretion of Isis coach Group Captain "Jumbo" Edwards...
...with absolute celibacy, and simplicity and directness in all things. "Be hand-minded," she would urge. "Put your hands to work and your hearts to God." Soon there were 19 self-contained communities scattered through New England, New York, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Every Shaker practiced a craft with particular diligence, producing everything except babies. They have now almost died out for lack of new recruits...
...committee felt that the opposition of parents and the risk of decreased educational efficiency outweighed all the advantages of a four-term year. Against the additional attractions for potential teachers, the committee felt that fatigue and the difficulties of rehousing those who were not teaching during a particular term were serious problems. Against the economies of full-time operation, the opposition of parents and students was a decisive obstacle...
...whatsoever concerning religion. The opponents of this view contended that commitment to religion necessitated the choosing of one, that just as a church can not be treated as a "cafeteria," as one professor described it, neither can Harvard be religious, abstractly, without carrying this belief into practice through one particular religion. Supporters of this latter view feared that without an institutional example, students would cease to be concerned about religion, and become agnostic through apathy rather than conviction...