Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feeding was omitted, and the feeding intervals were lengthened from three to four hours; an interesting reaction occurred. Within a week there was a marked change in the infant. A distinct bulging of the eyeballs occurred . . . respiration was shallow and irregular. When raised or moved the infant became rigid . . . there was no recognition of the person caring...
Fortunately, picking his men is one of Bolles' many fortes and the crew may be working on fine points before spring vacation is over. Nevertheless, southern crews will have a distinct advantage in the April races...
There are some bad features too, which can hardly be avoided. Visitors, for example, complain that the dining room is unfriendly-looking, that the House is divided into two distinct parts by a wide stretch of lawn, and residents must eat the mass-produced food of the central kitchen, perhaps the most-deserved gripe...
...forty-five auxiliaries were scrupulously regimented into two distinct crews under selected captains and lieutenants; they drilled at least once a week, usually roaring from their Memorial Drive station to Soldiers Field where hoses, ladders, and men would dive into action pumping water from the Charles near the boat house onto the Stadium at the rate of 500 gallons per minute...