Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...have already seen that street railways are public utilities, and as such should be regulated for the public good. This would be brought about by municipal ownership, which would result not only in better and more efficient service, as shown by our first speaker, but would also be a distinct economic advantage to New York City...
...roads in New York City. Acquired on such a basis as this and with present annual profits of nearly $25,000,000, it is clear that whether New York should choose to lease or operate the street railway lines ownership would be a distinct economic advantage...
...second pop-night of the year was held in the Living Room of the Union last evening, and although the attendance was not large it was a distinct success. Light refreshments were served throughout the evening and the Pierian Sodality Orchestra rendered a variety of pieces, including a march by Mendelssohn, Waldteufel's "Les Patineurs," Suppe's "Pique d'Ame," and selections from "It Happened in Nordland...
...mission movement had two distinct motives, philanthropic pity for the moral condition of the heathen, and dogmatic intensity to spread Christianity. The spirit has since grown better and broader because of the growth of humanism and of the increased knowledge of the spirit and life f the East...
Professor P. H. Hanus will take charge of the Division of Education, which by a recent vote of the Faculty, was separated from the Department of Philosophy and now forms a distinct division under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Besides Professor Hanus the instructors in the Department are to be Assistant Professor A. O. Norton and Mr. C. S. Moore...