Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today for the third time in as many autumns the West Point Corps, 1200 grey-clad men, will march into the Stadium. The presence of America's future officers, if only for an afternoon, should serve a purpose, totally distinct from any display of well-drilled soldiers in time to martial music. Their quiet appearance is an excellent antidote to the ranting extremists so common in this country. The pacifist, alarmed at the rattle of sabres, and the jingoistic militarist, suffering under an acute attack of super-patriotism, both fade rather ridiculously into an obscure wave of asinine jabbering...
...mayors of Boston and Cambridge to hasten to express indignation at honest and justified criticism, when their criticism could have been so much more effective had it been directed against the conditions surrounding the Legion Convention itself. A little intellectual honesty and straight thinking in public would be distinct assets to nearly all of our officials...
...because the heroine finally got the heir. This is rather the sort of comedy that is associated with the unfortunate Malvolio, a play of incongruities. Practically every character is caught in a problem that is impossible for him to solve, and it is in the living creation of these distinct and different beings that the present cast carries out so effectively and exquisitely...
...decision of the Graduate School faculty to admit only those men who have gained a Phi Beta Kappa key or who have shown distinct ability in their line of work, will undoubtedly raise the standards of scholarship in the Graduate School and reduce the growing congestion of budding Ph.D.'s, who crowd the stacks of Widener...
Despite this, the change is a distinct advance over the previous method, for it grants a reward for industry and creates an atmosphere of original thought...