Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hemenway Gymnasium Saturday night with striking success. It remains now only to grace the most manly form of athletic endeavor with the dignity and title of minor sport. As a form of clean, hard competition bringing into play the highest degree of skill training and condition, boxing has a distinct place among the organized athletics of the University...
Asked to compare the effect of chemicals with that of the airplane. General Fries said. "In warfare there are two distinct branches; one a carrier and one a destroyer. Chemicals and explosives are listed under the latter, while airplanes and zeppelins are classed under the former. Airplanes have been used and will be used as transporters of explosives, and of course, for this use they are unexcelled. However, it is impossible to compare airplanes with chemicals in their respective abilities of killing the enemy because neither can be effective without the other; they are each dependent on the other...
...figures for the best individual day last week show 188 men who gave a total of $7,056.50. This is a distinct advance over the best single day in 1926, when $2,699.50 was contributed by 112 men. It is, in fact, an increase of 68 per cent, in the number of contributors, and an increase of 161 per cent, in the total amount contributed...
...course, the Lampoon's policy to make the paper as distinct as possible from the Natchez (Tenn.) Polytechnic "Blowpipe" and the Princeton (N. J.) "Tiger". But, I think, that in the fervid ness of these utterly admirable intentions the editors have lost sight of the fact that a good humorous weekly should be funny and carry good drawings...
Chronic critics of the new order of things will see in this possible temporary lowering of standards a veritable menace. The fact is that the new order has so resulted in a distinct increase in the number of men achieving Dean's List privileges. The new policy, in devolving greater responsibility upon the individual student and in allowing him greater personal initiative, is following the same general lines as the changes which have preceded it, the tutorial system, the general examinations, and similar innovations. It is difficult to understand why this most recent step should not achieve equally successful results...