Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration, which is housed in the Littauer Center, to carry forth into the world the results of their research. For as Dean Williams has said, the emphasis of the School will be upon investigation and research rather than upon formal instruction. Through the agency of the Littauer Center, a distinct attempt is being made to direct work in the social sciences at Harvard more effectively towards the larger problems of policy and administration with which our government is confronted...
...This distinct stressing of research is a unique approach to the problem of training men for government service, the primary educational end to which the School is dedicated. Since its student body is composed of highly-educated graduate students, there is little need for further formal instruction. They will benefit more from doing research on various problems and then discussing them with consultant experts in seminars. In this way the individual student gains much knowledge. Furthermore, by the publication of the results of its research, the School believes it will add to the general store of knowledge and further justify...
...Line Storm or Tornado. Critics have found his color and texture slapdash and harsh compared to that of Iowa's deliberate Grant Wood. But Benton's style, an exuberant combination of cartooning draftsmanship, affectionate realism and tightly organized, undulating pattern, is the most imaginative and distinct of the three...
Probably the most storied newspaper of its size in the world, the Paris Herald, as most Americans call it (Parisians call it Le New York), has lived through three distinct careers, under three publishers. Each career has reflected the condition and aspirations of its readers-the Americans who live in Europe. Founded in 1887 by the late great James Gordon Bennett, it was for three decades a society paper for those expatriates of whom Henry James liked to write. It carried whole pages of yachting news, maintained its own coach to Versailles, was written in two languages, with the somewhat...
With hardly enough meat in it to support a Chiahuahua puppy, the recently issued report of the Student Council is a singularly uninspired document. For the most part, its recommendations read like a statement of pre-existing fact. Such suggestions as "definite preference" for Junior and Senior applicants, or "distinct preference" for Dean's List men are already enrolled in the battery of criteria which other House Masters keep ion mind. If the Council were to be so signally honored as to have its report adopted in toto by the Master, there would probably be little if any actual change...