Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wild Horses (Perry Como; Victor). A cheerful brag that it would take wild horses, obstacle courses and superior forces to keep Crooner Como away from his true love. The ditty has the distinct musical advantage of being built around a theme from The Horseman, a little piano piece for children by Robert Schumann...
Within aeronautical engineering itself there are many subdivisions. Each has such distinct requirements that men generally choose one and rarely practice in any of the others. In an aircraft plant these divisions are termed "groups." Each group--for example the design group or the flight test group--contains various levels according to the training, experience, and ability of the group member...
...normal in childbirth. Secondly, the worst of the pain can be made more easily bearable by the use of drugs. If a woman knows that this will be done, she is not so likely to have unreasoning, exaggerated fear of the pain itself. Moreover, there is a further distinct problem: many women have deep-seated anxieties which have nothing to do with physical pain-e.g., fear of increased responsibility, loss of personal freedom, economic hardships and overcrowding of the home...
...ordinary one-inch copper pipe, says Professor Harold Barlow of University College in London, can be tricked into carrying 1) a heavy load of power, 2) 2,000 telephone messages, and 3) 20 distinct television programs-and all at the same time...
...Meeting in Denver, the A.M.A. chose Dr. John Maston Travis, 75, of Jacksonville, Texas, as General Practitioner of the Year. Literally a horse & buggy doctor for eight years before he got his first Ford in 1913, Dr. Travis noted that general practice (as distinct from specializadon) is coming back into fashion. He himself has fathered two specialists...