Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman basketball team will be a distinct underdog when it concludes its season against Yale at 6:30 this evening...
Around the world, in hot climes and cool, flourishes a group of viruses that attack the central nervous system, causing encephalitis (inflammation of the brain). Many of these viruses-which scientists have classified in two distinct families labeled "A" and "B"-have defied the efforts of virologists and immunologists to devise protective vaccines. Now Johns Hopkins University's Dr. Winston H. Price reports what appears to be a major breakthrough in the war against the encephalitides. The technique depends on family similarity: immunity against two or three members of the B virus family, it appears, gives immunity against...
...most amazing true stories about the labyrinthine ways of the human mind concerns a woman known as Eve White, who went Jekyll and Hyde one better by having three distinct personalities, and changing from one to another with dramatic abruptness. Her case history, fragments of which appeared in 1954 before her treatment was concluded, is now fully told by her two psychiatrists. See MEDICINE, All About...
...dual personality in medical literature, and none well authenticated in the last 50 years, Psychiatrists Thigpen and Cleckley put their patient in a hospital, where she could be observed and get psychotherapy. Even under treatment. Eve Black "came out" and misbehaved occasionally. Batteries of psychological tests showed two distinct personalities, far more sharply differentiated in voice, speech, posture, mannerisms, handwriting and emotions than the most brilliant actress could have portrayed. Yet there was not the faintest suggestion of a mental illness resembling schizophrenia (the so-called "split personality"). Here were two rational personalities inhabiting the same body-though irresponsible...
Commodity market prices often forecast retail prices six to nine months in advance, since it usually takes that long for the rise or fall in wholesale prices to be passed on. Last week the commodity markets showed a distinct downtrend. Copper, at a 90-year peak of 46 a lb. only last March, slumped to 34?, was expected to drop still further. No. 2 copper scrap, also a March record-breaker when it hit 45.5?, fell 20? to the lowest price in some two years as copper production outpaced demand...