Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...whole the new scheme has been a distinct success, for more men have competed than previously. Next year an even larger number will take part in it, for while the four surviving clubs are competing, the second-year men will be engaged in a new qualifying round...
...forbidding him to eat in any other tended to divide the class into three groups. There were Smith men, Gore men and Standish men. At meal time, the time above all others when all the class should be free to meet and mingle, it was divided into three distinct parts...
That the Harvard Club in New York has undertaken the work of aiding recent graduates in the city to find positions is a distinct advance. The Club has not only proved its efficiency but serves as an example to other Clubs in starting the same sort of work, which will make them more valuable...
...advantage of a fumble on Williams 16-yard line in the last quarter, and, in a desperate series of rushes averted the disgrace of a defeat by a lighter team. The "wide-open" style of play of which Princeton was conceded to be the most reliable exponent was a distinct failure; of ten forward passes attempted but one was successfully carried...
Princeton's playing had taken a distinct reversal of form. Unsuccessful in the open game, her backs lacked drive and power on line plunges. The generalship of the quarter backs was obviously mediocre, and the tackling, of the ends in particular, and of the whole team in general, was way below standard. Glick and Law did by far the best work in a game which was decidly unsatisfactory, viewed from Princeton's standpoint...