Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Bunting, it would seem, envisions the undergraduate Radcliffe College as a distinct unit that must maintain an autonomy and name of its own, but she also sees the benefits of making a female graduate program in name just what it is in fact: a Harvard education...
...news columns and editorials of the middle years of the first decade of the new century displayed a curious mixture of the bromidic and the constructive. While there were many articles on such subjects as "Fresh Air in Classrooms," "Singing at the Games" and so on, there was a distinct trend to more valuable facts and opinions. The Crime took up the issue of brutality in football games, was responsible for the founding of the Student Council, and began an extensive series on educational policy...
...real fruit is borne--the Lion Rampant, 32 pages of literary magazine. Which is not to say that publishers will come running excitedly to Winthrop to sign up the freshly-discovered talents of these seven contributors (yet). Two, though, show distinct traces of genuine ability. Two more are good. Three are puzzling...
...land with a grim hand. In prehistoric times, Siberia was a vast ocean, and its topography still resembles that of a shallow sea bottom, raised at the edges by a saucer-rim of mountains, with few barriers against wind or sun. The flat landscape is banded by four distinct regions-the icy northern shelf of the tundra, where nothing grows except moss, lichen and dwarf shrub; the dense forest zone, or the taiga, where arctic birches sprout beside palm trees; the steppe, a black earth meadowland which, when properly farmed, is among the most productive soils in the world...
...face State Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz, the Republican nominee. During his primary campaign, Lefkowitz campaigned quietly, saying little about the scandals that have studded Wagner's administration, and plainly holding his fire for the general election. But New York is an incorrigibly Democratic city, and Wagner is a distinct favorite to be returned to city hall for another four years. And he is already the top Democrat in the most populous state...