Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...progressive step which should prove epochal. Its significance can be limited only by the calibre of the man appointed to the position. The Corporation has formally recognized athletics to be an integral part of education. Hitherto athletics and academic pursuits have existed side by side as things apart, separate, distinct, rather than as two phases of the same thing,--the development of the complete man. With the incorporation of the one in the other, the University gives noteworthy recognition of the fact -- which more and more is coming to be acknowledged in American education--that the function of a College...
There are two stories--"Beat the Dutch", by D. H. Munroe, which is pleasant and capable, and "The New Organ", by Donald Gibbs. Mr. Gibbs has a distinct and restrained style which shows much promise of future development. The versatility of the present Advocate is exemplified in the "Three Sketches", by Warren J. Nash, written in surprisingly excellent French, and not negligible from a literary point of view...
...only lyrics we happened to remember, and by this time we're way off key on both of them. In so far as the plot seeks to burlesque the matrimonial difficulties of one Nooky, a newspaper reporter, it is reasonably clever, just reasonably. There was always the distinct impression that Mr. Grossman and Mr. Morgan were putting a lot more into their lines than was actually intended, Mr. Crosby, as far as we could see, made the part of Mrs. Smith pretty much of a riot, all on his own hook...
...fixing at the cost of the farmers themselves (the moderates). In this latter group it appears that Frank O. Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois, who has become a leader of the agrarian interests, is to be included?possibly also Vice President Dawes. Between these two parties a distinct line has not yet been drawn, and a great many politicians would like to belong to both parties at once...
What Wadsworth has to say and do about this matter of reorganization of aviation, is going to be one of the controlling factors. But Wadsworth has remained peculiarly silent in the hubbub. Evidently the time for business as distinct from the time for talk has not quite arrived...