Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parasitic scheme of attempting to reduce novels and stage plays to the screen play, will not do. We have a new and a distinct device for dramatic expression and no one seems to know what to do with...
...meantime, selections will be made and the men appointed to their new offices in the organization. These appointments will be made for merit only, and on a distinct understanding that the appointee will hold office so long, and only so long, as his services are satisfactory...
...Central Publicity Board. The other nations would not hear of any other board. The matter was settled by leaving publicity to the nations concerned, which are morally bound to publish, within two months after each quarter, all sales of warships, armored cars, airplanes, airships, firearms (except sporting guns as distinct from rifles) and ammunition. In the case of States contiguous to Russia, permission was given for them, if they so desired, to reserve the obligation of publishing statistics on movements of munitions until such a time as Russia subscribed to the Covenant. Esthonia, Finland, Latvia, Poland and Rumania immediately availed...
...have a separate Under Secretary for the Dominions as well as a separate Under Secretary for the Colonies. For reasons of convenience and economy, the new secretariat of the Dominions will be housed in the Colonial Office. But matters which concern the Department for the Colonies will henceforth be distinct from those that concern the Dominions. In this respect, the new Cabinet office is a step in the evolution of a Commonwealth constitution...
Larded only with an interval for luncheon, there were two lengthy prayers, five musical selections, the conferring of degrees, and 16 speeches by the Young Gentlemen on such subjects as De Fructu ex Auctorum Gracorum et Latinorum Lectione Assidua, Percipiendo; On the Distinct Province of Poetry and Eloquence; On Sensibility to Public Opinion; The Pleasures and Effects of Early Friendship; On the Maxim that Virtue Is Essential to the Character of an Orator; a "dispute" On the Comparative Pleasure Derived from the Works of Art and Nature; a "colloquy" On Alison's Theory of Taste...