Word: special
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...
...years ago, when Hires Turner called him in to see what was wrong with its silvering solution. Amazed was William Peacock at pitcher-pouring. So he went to work on a new process, managed to support his Peacock Laboratories meanwhile by supplying advice, standardized silvering solution, special rubber gloves and other mirror-making accessories to the trade. Near last year's end he found the answer, a speedier solution (his trade secret) to replace Epsom salts as a reducing agent. With the new solution he could silver a mirror in 57 seconds, instead of over half an hour. Better...
...Ella was not absurd, and it is the special virtue of Jenny Ballou's book that she makes that plain. Some of Ella's first poems were "lovely in their lilt, overbrimming with an authentic freshness of emotion." She had great energy, great sincerity, great generosity, and on occasion great good sense. Even when she became a fixture of yellow journalism, her spontaneity remained untainted by cynicism. What was it that led her on into the self-deception that finally broke down in her last tragic years? ("I shall be forgotten," she said, "while more careful and conscientious...
...library, which has been installed in a special gallery of the Germanic Museum, will provide scholars in this country with the first opportunity for detailed work in several of the most important periods of German literature...
Among the 2,742 items of first-editions or editions of special interest are rare issues of the work of Martin Luther, an almost complete collection of books tracing the history of lyrics and hymnology in Germany during the 16th century, thirty first-editions of Goethe, and the complete thirty-three volume works of Frederick the Great which were produced for and belonged to the Emperor Frederick...