Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daily Princetonian's well-publicized editorial which appears in this morning's issue comes to us as a distinct surprise. We had understood that the attitude of the Princeton Athletic Association was not unfriendly to the methods of "big-time" football and we are astonished to find that undergraduate opinion as expressed by The Princetonian does not agree with...
...Republican National Committee: "I cannot free myself of the impression that the attitude you have taken is affected and perhaps involuntarily controlled by the political party in power which regulates the issuance of your licenses. I believe your policy . . . will leave in the minds of the American public the distinct impression that you are either exercising an unwarranted degree of censorship or that you fear punitive action by the Federal Communications Commission...
...losses of one subsidiary were deductible from the profits of another in the same group, thus reflecting operations of the enterprise as a whole. Today every corporation, parent or subsidiary, must file a separate return, pay its own tax. Aside from the nuisance, this is a distinct disadvantage to a company with subsidiaries showing both profits and losses, since no credit is received for the losses...
Most modern U. S. Presidents sooner or later fall into the habit of comparing themselves, directly or obliquely, with one of their greater predecessors in office. In 1931 Herbert Hoover went to Valley Forge to deliver a George Washington address. When he got through, the Press had the distinct impression that the 31st President was thinking of himself and his troubles in terms of the First President, that the noble general who shivered at the Valley Forge of the Revolution and the great engineer who was then shivering at the Valley Forge of the Depression, were really...
There was no such thing as a plant patent in the U. S. when Luther Burbank died in 1926. In 1930 President Hoover signed a bill enlarging the class of eligible patentees to include anyone "who has invented or discovered and asexually reproduced any distinct variety of plant other than the tuber-propagated plant." One patent covers an improved mushroom, another a pecan nut. Flowers account for more patents than edible plants, roses for the most flower patents, hybrid-tea shrubs for the most roses. Luther Burbank's heirs have patented some of his plums and peaches. Patent...