Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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M.I.T. announced the establishment of a distinct School of Humanities over the weekend. The new division will take its place alongside schools of Engineering Sciences and Architectural Sciences...
...mosaic turns out to be about a girl who goes through one or more traumatic experiences, grows up, and returns to her childhood home in the country. The story, however, is too fragmentary for more than a superficial understanding, and that, it would seem to me, is a distinct drawback to the mosaic theory of writing...
...cast, without exception, is excellent Peggy Allenby, as Linda Loman, presents a subtly shaded characterization in a part that could have been no more than a mirror of the salesman's mind. As Willy's sons, Darren McGavin and Paul Langton become distinct individuals, each with some of their father's traits. Willy's brother Ben and his friend Charley are both finely-drawn by Royal Beal and Howard Smith...
...present Russian strength makes Red victory in the first phase a distinct possibility. Russian victory in the first phase would make victory in the second phase a heavy probability...
During the era of President Eliot there were three distinct social strata: the poorer students who lived in Cambridge's numerous "boarding houses", the middle class students who lived in the more expensive Yard dormitories, and the "Gold Coasters" who lived in the privately owned Westmorely Court, Randolph Hall, Apley Court, Claverly, and Dudley...