Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart of the program consisted of six Haydn songs and both sets of Brahms Liebeslieder waltzes. These works were originally intended for vocal quartet, though they are often sung by choruses. The Cambridge Quartet showed, however, that a performance by only four voices has the advantage of a more distinct transmission of the text, a subtler grading of nuances, and the lighter tone quality which keeps such richy-harmonized music form sounding overly-lush...
Unfortunately, only one singer, Robert Simon as the god, had sufficiently distinct diction. The rest of the cast was frequently unintelligible...
...spectacular drive of the Viet Minh Communist army through Laos last week threatened to set off a chain reaction through Southeast Asia (see map). The ethnic majority in this region is Thai (pronounced tie), an ancient racial group distinct from both Chinese and Indians...
Finally, as distinct, from the smaller fields of concentration, where undergraduates tend to have a more specifically professional interest in the subject matter, the five large fields have had to face the brutal fact that large numbers of their students simply do not seem to find time to read for the tutor; and the students' explanations usually have to do with the pressure of course work. This delicate problems appears less pressing to the student than to the instructor who has tutored for some years. But, from the beginning, it has always been the most chronic of all the difficulties...
...open letter of Samuel P. Sears to Dean Griswold came as a distinct shock to us. Mr. Sears contends that we have 'clearly disqualified' ourselves from further membership in the student body...