Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...army officer gave as definition of "stratosphere" the "region where temperature ceases to fall and becomes substantially constant". Laying emphasis on the failure to penetrate beyond a transition zone of light and heavy atmosphere, he expressed a conviction that with the accessibility to a greater elevation a more distinct transformation would be evident. Results of the recent flight yielded valuable specimens of ozone, a high oxygen layer which deflects ultraviolet rays, and revealed the presence of living spores and bacteria at the highest altitudes...
...last decade there has been a distinct advance in the position of the dog. His steady rise in public esteem and the increased acknowledgment of his definite part in complex human relations is encouraging. The dog does not contend, he merely adds his measure to qualities of which this world has never had enough. Loyalty is a favorite word in our vocabularies. It is a luminous word, direct and simple. May we pledge it anew to the cause of those quiet friends who have helped us to interpret and define its meaning...
...along his way he had paid out most of it for a 44-ft., 50-year-old harbor yacht called the Sirocco. Remorseful, but liking her low, raking lines, he decided to sail her 3,000 miles to New Guinea. All for it were three footloose companions. Setting a distinct highwater mark in personable, salty entertainment, Beam Ends is Errol Flynn's yarn of the voyage that followed...
...Ferrell--beering in "Manhattan Club", modestly admitting he always pitched enough winning games to get a pennant for any club but seeming to infer that there was distinct lack of talent among some of the other Sox moundsmen...
...services for a profit; and these functions are the major categories of opportunity for college graduates. Research, finance, personnel administration and management are activities necessary for the operation of these primary functions. There are, then, these distinct groups of opportunity in business and industry for college men, each as significantly different from the others as it is from law, medicine, or teaching. And they are functions common to all forms of business and industry...