Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less troublesome problem for Mr. Morrow, because his chief adversary in the primary, Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen, last week flopped from Dry to Wet. If Mr. Morrow should weasle on this issue out of deference to President Hoover's policy, Mr. Morrow knew that he would put himself at a distinct political disadvantage at home...
Whether or not contemporary painting, sketching, and sculpture appeals to the individual is a matter of personal taste and one that gives rise to many points of difference. It is a cultivation of this taste that finally brings to most people a distinct liking for modern art and an admiration for the work that the Paris school artists and their contemporaries produce...
Senators were left with the distinct impression that any campaign to stiffen Prohibition enforcement by the Department of Justice must be preceded by wholesale prison construction...
...part the institution plays in international commerce: "Executives of American business having interests in China attribute a decrease of 25% in the 'turnover' of their Far Eastern personnel in large part to the existence of the Shanghai American School. All such executives regard the institution as a distinct asset...
...recent 82-61 vote of the New York Assembly supporting the Cuvillier bill petitioning Congress to call a Constitutional convention to repeal the unlovely Amendment have served, for the first time, to bring together under the same tent definite and compact opinion on the liquor question from three distinct elements in the Republic...