Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless, the body of the House does seem to break up into two fairly distinct groups, which have little interrelation, and which associate mainly among themselves...
...There can be no doubt about it," Harris said. "We are in the midst of a recession." The current drop in industrial production from last year's levels, an unemployment total nearing four million, and an inventory decrease in American business are distinct evidences of a general business decline, he said...
Coffin, a graduate of Bates College and the Law School, spoke on "The Small City Lawyer." Relying on his law experience in Lewiston and Portland, Mc., Coffin said that there is a distinct advantage in being a lawyer in a small city...
...Press and Printing Office were run as one organization until 1942. But even then, although nominally a unit, they operated separately, since the publishing the printing ends of the book business are quite distinct. In fact, most of today's large publishing houses have either given up their presses or keep them as subsidiary organs...
...world assumed that Hemingway, one of the most accident-prone of famous men (he absorbed 237 separate and distinct pieces of metal as an ambulance driver on Italy's Piave front during World War I, has an artificial kneecap, bears scars from a World War II automobile accident, a collapsing ceiling and innumerable other mishaps), was dead. Newspapers all over the world ran scare headlines and obituaries, Havana waiters wept, millions of Hemingway readers expressed shock and sorrow...