Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to the National Geographic Society, Asir is the least known region in the world. At present without any distinct boundaries, Asir is situated on the west coast of Arabia, between Hedjas and Yemen on the Red Sea. It has a population of roughly one million...
Herr Cuno, German Chancellor, made his second offer. This is a distinct advance on his last note. The offer, which was made on the advice of the British Government and which takes account of the Belgian plan (TIME, June 11) is for payment of $265,600,000 a year for a period to be settled by an international body. An international loan is preferred, but Germany is prepared to begin payment of these annuities on January 1, 1928, and in the meantime to make a total payment in kind to the value of $595,000,000. Guarantees were offered: capitalization...
Both of the dashes should have a distinctly Blue tinge, as also the pole vault, in which the Yale entrants took all three places against Princeton. In the javelin throw, also, Yale has a distinct advantage, since both Storrs and Bench are making some long heaves this season. In the Yale meet last year Greenidge won for the University over Storrs, but this season the Yale spearsman has shown very great improvement, and his throws are all hovering around the 200-foot mark...
...Rogers", President Eliot continued, "had a distinct prophetic vision of the part which the new school of applied science was to play in American democracy. Mrs. Rogers, through her large field of acquaintances in Boston, was able to bring just the right people together to support the project...
...drug was discovered by Dr. Walter A. Jacobs and Dr. Michael Heidelberger, of the Rockefeller Institute, in 1915, after 63 distinct combinations had been found failures. It is somewhat similar in structure to arsphenamine (neo-salvarsan), the best specific for syphillis yet found, which was devised by Ehrlich, of Germany, and Hata, of Japan, after several hundred fruitless trials. Studies of the action of tryparsamide on animals were made by Dr. Wade H. Brown and Dr. Louise Pearce, of the Institute staff, and in 1920 Dr. Pearce went to the Belgian Congo, where she used it extensively in the treatment...