Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each other's experiments. United and American agreed to lower their rates half as far as did TWA last year. TWA will now raise its rates to that level. In addition, the three lines agreed to set up the first rate structure in air transport history with three distinct classes of travel corresponding to railroad sleepers, chair-cars and day-coaches. As of May 1, the basic transcontinental fare will be $149.95.* This will buy a seat in a standard DC2 or DC-3. An extra fare of $4 will buy a swivel chair in a deluxe...
...general, the modifications in the tutorial system approved by the Faculty Council follows the plan which the Department of History has already put into effect this year. As stated by that Department. "Two distinct plans of study and instruction with appropriate difference in the method of examination' have been adopted 'in recognition of the general opinion that all students are not equally capable (or desirous) of profiting by tutorial instruction as compared to course instruction...
Though figures on next year's Sophomore concentrators are not definite, with 17 reports still out and in view of the fact that next fall's definite decisions on fields of concentration necessarily make present figures inaccurate, a distinct trend toward the social sciences is evident...
...months she was three or four years of age. Her enunciation became less distinct, she was careless with her spoon, spilling food, and had to be assisted with her feeding, she would prattle at times and occasionally she soiled herself. She had ceased to read and would have crawled around on the floor had the nurse so permitted...
...have gone along all these years believing that I saw from the forward fire control of the U.S.S. Florida the surrender of the German fleet off the Firth of Forth on Nov. 21, 1918. I had a distinct recollection of shivering at four o'clock of a November morning and trying to analyze an empty feeling in my stomach as I looked down on turrets swinging menacingly toward the swift grey streaks on the horizon that were the Hindenberg, the Seydlitz, the von der Tann, etc., of the Imperial German Navy...