Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether one likes this unquestionably rather sordid type of entertainment or not, this picture has definitely set a new level in its particular field and seems to fulfill the promises of merit which its producers made...
...Southern California refused to per mit itself to be looked around quietly by these particular tourists. It seized them up in its capacious hospitality and whirled them about in a lavish circuit of inspection. Tremendous crowds bellowed "hurrahs!" at them. Newsmen dogged their heels. Flowers and fruit poured in upon them. California citizens made the visit of a one-time president of the U. S. and his wife a Royal Progress...
...With particular suspicion do they view Morgan, banker of Great Britain during the War, who has his London house in Grosvenor Square and his English country seat, Wall Hall, at Watford. What is more natural, they think, than . . . that the Morgan group, with its vast investments in British shipping held in vassalage to the British Government, should favor American naval surrender, perpetuating British mastery of the seas...
...breeding strawberry-raising island of Guernsey, ancient fief of the Dukes of Normandy, enjoy the finest climate and the lowest taxes in the British Isles, but they have their own special coins and measures (eight doubles: one penny; one vergee: 0.4 acres) and their own archaic and particular means of legal redress. The method of obtain.ng a civil injunction in Guernsey is curious, simple and direct, consists in raising a Clameur de Haro in the presence of witnesses...
...working machine held the attention of the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers at their Manhattan meeting last week, just as he always interests every user of his productive capacities. The particular question which held the engineers was what condition of air-temperature and humidity-is best for man's work. Dr. William John McConnell of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. told them...