Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard and Yale do differ significantly, however, in one little-known corner of university work. Both schools support Chinese studies, by means of the Harvard-Yenching Institute and Yale-in-China. But in its origins and current policies, Yale-in-China draws upon a concept of education quite distinct from that utilized by the Harvard-Yenching Institute...
...well the guest of his classmate (Harvard-1906), Arthur N. Holcombe, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Emeritus, at the latter's seminar on the American Executive. He impressed the students there as the true diplomat--distinguished white hair, pince-nez, well-filled vest, and a distinct, erudite speech with a slight European accent...
Early Rounds. At the start of the campaign, Nixon men would have dismissed as preposterous a prediction that three weeks before the end Nixon would be slipping behind, with omens of defeat swirling about him. The strange 1960 campaign has gone through three distinct phases. After the confused wrestling at the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, with the idealistic Stevensonian liberals outraged by what they considered the Kennedy steamroller tactics, the Republican Convention in Chicago conveyed an impression of unity, earnestness and respectability. Nixon's acceptance speech went over with the TV audience a lot better than Kennedy...
...past ten days, veteran political reporters, editors, and pollsters have noted a distinct swing to Senator Kennedy; and a statewide poll taken by the New York Daily News, indicates that the rumblings may foreshadow a Democratic landslide...
...even vaguer. The success of the program will therefore depend entirely on the vigor and interest of the Master and Fellows in each House, their willingness to seek out ideas and to experiment. To help the Fellows establish a definition of the Office, they should be formed as a distinct body that would coordinate their activities and pass on ideas...