Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...neurons of each type are scattered throughout the nose, but they send messages that converge on distinct spots in the olfactory bulb at the front of the brain, Buck said. "What is most remark-able is that the locations of convergence are identical in different animals...
With those playoffs just a week away, it's time to take a close look at the annual conundrum of postseason seedings. The Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference does not have quite the parity it had last year. Rather there are three distinct groups battling for slots...
...Harvard played last night's game on its home court, and that has proved a distinct advantage in the two teams' recent match...
Harvard played last night's game on its home court, and that has proved a distinct advantage in the two teams' recent match...
...viewer's throat. His morality was all sympathy; he wasn't in any direct way a preacher. But in a time and place that put the strongest emphasis on the idea of the ordered, tranquil family as the basis of a just society, his visions of domesticity had a distinct symbolic point. Disorder, in the real world outside or the formal one inside his paintings, repelled him. Everything in his interiors is swept, garnished. De Hooch epitomizes the Dutch obsession with cleanliness, which at the time was unique in Europe: compared with these frugal bourgeois, 17th century Englishmen, Italians...