Word: singular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...execute in Russia German Engineer Emil Ivan Stickling, who Was sentenced to death fortnight ago for "sabotage"' (TIME, Nov. 30). Ambassador von Ribbentrop then left by air through a dangerously dense fog for Berlin. In Moscow, with evident perturbation, the Soviet Council of Commissars soon issued a most singular communique, revealing that in Russia the quick-triggered OGPU sometimes get considerably ahead of the rest of the Communist mechanism of "class justice." Announced the Council: "It has been found possible to reduce the sentences of Stickling, Leonankoand Kovienko from death to ten years' imprisonment, but the others already...
True, it would be nice to have such a uniform athletic policy around here, but if it can only be obtained by a letting down of our own standards, it is hardly worth the candle. One would need a singular degree of optimism to expect all the gentlemen around us, now the proud possessors of the best football teams that money can buy, immediately to metamorphose into little angels. Virtue will, in all probability, continue to be its own reward...
Officials of the Library evidently consider the scroll of singular importance, for they have given it a case all by itself, and artistic principles of decoration are carefully observed so as to set it off to the best advantage...
...Singular & Sensational...
Permit me to remark that it was a singular and sensational accomplishment...