Word: singular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indeed in one case incest is deliberately practiced because it is thought to confer singular powers on the man who commits it. On the Nkomati River men, before departing to hunt hippopotamus, bed with their daughters, after which they are deemed to be murderers and wizards, and the hippopotamus will be no match for them...
...grave effort to make himself understood, to fix the attention of "bad readers" on the passage before them. Contemplating what has been done to Shakspere's punctuation, so that the meaning of many Shaksperian passages is often wrenched, Cummings was moved to adopt a system of punctuation which is singular, and its singularity will ensure him (a hundred years hence) of a pure text. His faith in textual critics, it seems, is unshakable...
Ballyhoo for the Westminster Kennel Club's Annual Dog Show is usually composed of statistics, freaks, photographs of puppies. Last week's ballyhoo contained the customary information that more dogs (2,837) were entered than ever before, items about a singular creature called the Welsh Corgi, news that dachshunds outnumbered all other entries. Newsreaders, however, were flabbergasted at one new note in the ballyhoo. This was the Woolworth Donahue Cheetah. Before the show opened sports pages contained pictures of the cheetah and its trainer, Publisher Eltinge F. Warner of Field & Stream. When the show began, patrons viewed...
...rather poor. . . . The country's sparsity of population is the chief obstacle in its progress. . . . Mexico is constantly threatened by diseases characteristically tropical. . . . The National Revolutionary Party believes that athletic training and sports are . . . an ideal manner of combatting vices, especially that of alcohol. . . . Delinquency offers a singular problem in the Republic . . . particularly cases of crimes committed by abandoned children-already perverted or on the point of being...
...current ditty much sung by crooners contains the lines: Pardon my Southern accent ... I love y'all. This month the Kiwanians of Augusta, Ga. solemnly resolved to start a crusade against the singular use of "you-all" in Northern books, magazines and cinema...