Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the Roosevelt lead and splitting the nation's consumer incomes into thirds, Dr. Kneeland found that the 13,000,000 families and individuals in the lower third received under $780 a year, were not a distinct or unusual social group but included all types of consumers in all sorts of communities. Fully 70% of them were not getting any form of relief, although their average income was$471 a year. The middle third of 13,000,000 averaged $1,076; the top third, just under $3,000-but this was a meaningless figure because of the tremendous range...
...voters of Kentucky, of course, disdained all swill trough promises. They rose even above personalities, in which the grinning, song-singing, slaphappy, 40-year-old Governor had a distinct edge over the slow-footed, slow-witted, 60-year-old drayhorse Senator. While "Happy" Chandler sang There's a Gold Mine in the Sky, voters remembered the plea of Franklin Roosevelt, author of all their benefits, to send back to the Senate his dear, distinguished colleague Mr. Barkley...
...just out, that's all," said Mickey Cochrane, almost as stunned as when he was beaned last summer. "Believe me, it was a distinct surprise," said 46-year-old Delmar Baker as he was upped from his third-base coaching job to become the new manager of the Tigers...
...began to deny the existence of collective behavior, to declare that it was simply the sum of individual behavior. Dr. Richard Tracy La Piere, associate professor of sociology at Stanford University, believes that both these views are wrong, that social interaction patterns should be taken as real, but as distinct from individual patterns. Out last week was his Collective Behavior,* a volume in which he has tried to assemble available data as "a tentative frame of reference for further study...
Most generally confused classes in this hierarchy are producers and directors. Actually, producers and directors are not only quite distinct, but they are natural enemies. Producers may be defined as glorified executives who wear immaculate street clothes, sit in luxurious offices, hold conferences around shiny tables and concern themselves primarily with Ideas. Producers' ideas are mostly about money. Top producers in Hollywood currently are Twentieth Century-Fox's small, dynamic Darryl Zanuck, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's aging, pompous Louis B. Mayer, Warner Brothers' Harry Wrarner and Hal Wallis, Jock Whitney's placid David Oliver Selznick...