Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Kipling. This is more especially true of "Through the Gap." The last in the volume, "A Purple Rhododendron," is intensely dramatic and carries the reader by main force up to the crisis. None of the stories are more than a few pages in length, yet each is a distinct and lasting picture...
...almost all of last year's eleven were available for positions; but the progress so far has not been as rapid as was expected. The team as a whole is not aggressive enough; the men do not make the most of their opportunities. On the defence there is a distinct weakness in breaking through and on the offense the interference is slow in starting and runs too easily...
...letters and editorials urging that the fund for building the Brooks House be employed in aiding the projected University Club. As one of the committee which obtained that fund, I should like to say that no such diversion of it is legally possible. The subscriptions were given for a distinct purpose-the erection of a specified building-and could at no time be used for other purposes. At present, too, the building may be regarded as an accomplished fact. The Corporation have in writing granted the site, the plans are drawn, and the contracts for construction are about...
...students' share to take; that the student was treated as a mature man, willing to work for his own pleasure. "We insist," he said, "that you do what you do here, for yourselves, not for us. We want to see every man pushing forward in pursuit of his own distinct interests...
...four captains had their first crews boated yesterday afternoon, and each crew made a distinct improvement over the work of last week. All the thirty-two candidates reported at the boat house and each man had some tubbing practice...