Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...save the susceptibilities of the delicate, I would like to suggest that the animal is a cow; certainly there are distinct traces of cow about it. It is well known that a cow is the most domestic and comfortable of animals. If it has any sex, it does not flaunt it. It might be said to maintain some sort of massive and conservative neutrality about the whole question...
...humor. On the opening show, Shriner followed a comic monologue about an Indiana postmaster with a small-town skit that contained liberal borrowings from such poles-apart sources as Thornton Wilder's Our Town and Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Beneath all the imitative layers is a distinct and often funny Shriner personality, which shows to good advantage in his gentle ribbing of the sponsor's product, Arrow Shirts...
...tough, unglamorized action. The camera moves fast, nervously picking out detail: a monstrous fullback sauntering innocently away from an opponent he has just maimed; the ground rushing up toward a runner who has been blocked once too often; a scattering of hired athletes at a fraternity dance, each as distinct from the eager fraters as if he were standing under a glass bell...
Last January President Conant recommended in his annual report that the University consider making such a switch. It would not be merely an acceleration program but a distinct change in the Harvard tradition of education...
...Yard dormitories fall into four distinct types--the modern type, the ancient Hollis (1763) and Stoughton (1805) kind, the large Holworthy (1312) and Grays (1863) variety, and finally the post-Civil War style of Matthews, Weld (both 1872) and Thayer...