Word: different
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...departmental store. I cannot keep my eyes off its window-displays, its crowds of customers, its army of employees [but] public opinion in Britain is not yet ripe to approve the employment of responsible imaginative writers ... in any scheme of publicity for a commercial concern. Personally I differ from public opinion . . . but I will not flout...
...Ears differ in detecting pronunciations, but it may safely be said that "enj'yment" is preferred in rural New England...
Football authorities differ as to the advisability of the now ruling. William J. Bingham 16, Director of Athletics, is among those who feel the "dead fumble" rule will rob the game of one of its biggest thrills. On the whole, however, opinion seems to favor this new evidence of the present tendency to sacrifice the spectacular in football in the interests of greater precision...
Brother Lammot?tall and serious?his hair neatly parted on one side?peering through spectacles?is in many ways a slim edition of massive brother Pierre. But they differ in temperament. Lammot is a worker, a studious realist, where Pierre is a creative planner, an expansive idealist. Like Pierre's, his laugh is quiet, almost silent, but unlike Pierre's his interests are few and confined. Pierre crusades, but not Lammot. Pierre has conservatories; Lammot, conservatism...
Whether or not this method in operation at Harvard bears immediate fruit in the so-called "brain tests" is an impossible question to determine; results are likely to differ with each individual student. If, however, this is in any way likely, as the Yale News seems to believe, the Harvard system would bear watching during the course of the next few years...