Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program to put a man in orbit and bring him back alive, called Project Mercury, is distinct from the tests scheduled for the stub-winged X-15 already built by North American Aviation. Inc. Essentially an extra-tough airplane, the X-15 will climb into nearby space under its own rocket power and glide quickly back to earth under full control. Project Mercury's space capsule will be designed to achieve an around-the-earth orbit, but it will land passively by parachute...
...gentle, mildly charming production that Michael Benthall has directed for the Old Vic, the love poetry and the subtly melancholy atmosphere it distills form the pervading element, and the contrasting comic elements are very much played down. There is a distinct lack of any sort of vitality, but in Twelth Night vitality can be ruinous if not restrained, and its absence can be borne. The most basic need is for technique and taste in the production rather than energy and passion, and the former are the qualities that the Vic is best equipped to provide...
Every time the price level goes up, "a large group of students get nearer the economic margin." In connection with this fact, Leighton noted, there is the distinct possibility of admitting an increased number of non-resident students...
...Passion holds attention and, with no greater indebtedness than many Broadway rewrites, uses a far happier model. But as creative drama it is too explicit, too unlarge, in its writing too literary-often seeming, not like prose as compared to Shakespeare's poetry, but like prose as distinct from talk...
Doty noticed "a distinct segregation" of teaching and research men. Moscow University is not a research center in the sense of M.I.T. or Harvard," he explained. "The Moscow researchers are in a self-contained Institute ten miles away...