Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the exterior of Eliot House, the result of the site which was offered for the bewilderment of the architects. Barren of foliage, and with a blank expanse of wall at one end, the court sorely needs the concealing grace of tree and vine. The interior is fortunately a distinct improvement. Most of the rooms are comfortable and large enough; the Common Rooms (there are two) are small but dignified. The Dining Room is too large and elaborate for daily use. It is graced by the Sargent portrait of Eliot, and by the Agassiz Inter-House Crew Cup. The Library...
...particularly on account of the underlying stress of the fact that the United States is vitally concerned in world affairs, and that our country must definitely trim its sails to the international wind currents, the authors of "World Affairs" have inaugurated a series of books that represent a distinct service...
...makers of war paraphernalia, were ordered by the Air Ministry last week to stop work on the largest fighting and bombing sea plane ever begun in Great Britain, a monster weapon of destruction with a cruising range of 1,300 mi. "This economy," said a spokesman sadly, "is a distinct blow to the Empire's progress. Had she proved successful, we planned to build another ship almost twice as large and correspondingly more powerful." Vickers, Ltd. will some day build a plane with which New York can be bombed from London or vice versa, for they sell to any good...
...plan at Yale will, with these exceptions, not only give all of the recognized advantages of the reading period as in use at Harvard, but will in one way be in distinct advance of the system. A great part of the value of the Harvard reading period is lost for the reason that students enrolled in one or more courses in scientific or mathematical subjects must interrupt their mornings and afternoons of reading by attending classes and preparing work in those subjects. The Yale plan eliminates this disadvantage and, by permitting students in such courses to spend their time...
...people out of economic bondage. To his foes he is another William Jennings Bryan threatening the very foundations of U. S. economic life. In the Murray makeup there is undoubtedly much of "Old Hickory," much of the "Great Commoner" but there is also enough more to make him a distinct political individual. Crude as Lincoln, he has the common touch; active as Roosevelt, he dramatizes public issues;* honest as Cleveland, he makes public office a public trust; and like every intelligent demagog, he may be accused of twisting his economic convictions to suit the accident of politics...