Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dartmoth, with three runners in the top 20-doug Brew, Bob Hogarty, and peter Jepson--edged out the crimson for fourth. It was known that Cornell, army, and Navy were distinct powers, but Harvard, which had beaten the Green on the way to its undefeated season, was expected to place higher than Dartmouth...
...Devil does, however, occasionally stumble. Toward the end, for example, the light vein is momentarily broken by Faust's sudden philosophic despair. ("The poorest beggar at least owns his own soul," he complains to his lover.) Nevertheless, the picture, enlivened by Leon Barsacq's lavish sets, is a distinct triumph of French joie de vivre over the sombre morality of previous Faust legends...
...world which Coughlin reveals in his book, moreover, is not really Faulkner's private world. There is a distinct feeling that he is looking in, that he has failed to get beneath the surface or Faulkner's life and is only recording, as fully and as competently as possible, the externals of this world...
...rays showed a second major difference between the Andrews and Brodie twins. There is a bony process between the girls' brainpans, suggesting that they may have entirely distinct nervous systems and bloodstreams. If so, separating them should be far easier than with the Brodies, of whom only Rodney Dee survived. But doctors still could not be sure that the girls did not share a single sagittal sinus (a major vein returning blood from the top of the brain toward the heart). It was this defect that proved fatal to Roger Lee Brodie. Before surgery is attempted, the twins will...
...presence of both fraternity men and independents in approximately equal numbers is the other major dividing line in the Cornell student body, but the campus atmosphere seems to be one of distinct "peaceful co-existence." Altogether there are approximately 55 or 60 fraternities at Cornell; there is some question as to what actually constitutes a fraternity, so estimates of their number vary...