Word: distinctions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nineteenth class to start instruction in the unit since its founding in June, 1941, the new contingent complements almost 450 men who are already halfway through their training. The school, now under the command of Captain Kenneth C. McIntosh, USN (retired), is distinct from the Midshipmen-Officers' Unit, which gives a year's training in similar fields...
...London Times noted "an invasion of robins" from the Continent and pointed out that European robins are quite distinct (smaller red breasts, whiter underparts) from British robins...
After that there is nothing on the horizon but a distinct golden haze already reflected in the eyes of some of the more confident of our brothers such as "Weeping Walter" Blatt. Of course there always will be people like the local ROTC who would dispute our primacy by having their commissioning the day before ours, but consolation will lie in our proud oak leaf insignia which, together with the Supply Corps, is 150 years old this Friday and which, incidentally, was adopted in 1785 in honor of the oaken fighting ships on which the Corps first served
...democratic society, Pius XII was at lengthy pains to make plain that by democracy he did not mean Communism: "[The State] should in practice be the organic and organizing unity of a real people. The people and the shapeless multitude (or as it is called the masses) are two distinct concepts. The people lives and moves of its own life energy. . . . The masses, on the contrary, wait for the impulse from outside, an easy plaything in the hands of anyone who exploits their instincts...
...Volksgrenadiere, as distinct from the Volkssturm, are mainly composed of experienced soldiers who would ordinarily be retired for age, disabilities or wounds. Some healthy, hard-fighting sailors and airmen have been impressed into the Volksgrenadiere, while others have been used to replenish regular Wehrmacht divisions...