Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tests involving 32 different strains of bacteria, Cornell University Biologist Martin Alexander and General Electric Chemist John Gould have found that each excretes metabolic wastes that are chemically distinct. When the waste products of a single strain are passed through a laboratory chromatograph. a device that separates chemical compounds, they produce a distinctive graph with characteristic peaks and valleys. Thus the graphs or chromatograms of unidentified bacteria can be com pared with those of known bacteria and-like fingerprints-be used to establish their exact identity...
There is today no agreed definition of what a hero is. Philosopher Sidney Hook defines a hero as an "eventmaking" man who changes history, like Churchill or Lenin, as distinct from the merely "eventful" man, like Lyndon Johnson (so far) or Charles de Gaulle. "De Gaulle would be an eventmaking man," says Hook, "if he had the power." Yet there are many heroes who did not change events, or who had heroism thrust upon them through accident...
...earthy, whether it is Ted Williams or Casey Stengel-but he must not be too loutish. Jackie Robinson is elected because he displayed grace under the pressure of breaking the color bar in baseball. Still, the arena is crowded; so many good athletes are on view that heroes, as distinct from mere record breakers, are scarce...
What has, in fact, evolved from the mixing of the traditional hostility and the more recent growth of contact has been a distinct ambivalence in City-University relationships. Where contact has been made on an individual basis, the hostility has often been put aside. Thus, PBH has been able to make long lists of friends. But where Harvard has emerged as an "Institution," the hostility--or at least much of it--remains. Watching a protest march down Massachusetts Ave. this spring most Cambridge spectators could murmur nothing but disgust. They identified the marchers with Harvard, and clearly they didn...
...Whitlock has opened up lines of communication that never existed before," one City politician explains. The improved communications has combined with the University's larger size to yield some distinct benefits for both Harvard and the City's politicians. Explains one old-hand: "Politicians who used to be critical of Harvard and M.I.T. now spend a lot of their time perfecting their relations with the universities personnel directors to get jobs for their constituents." The dividends to Harvard are even greater...