Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smelt takes its name not from its peculiar cucumber-like smell but from Anglo-Saxon smeolt ("bright and shining"). It is a small, slender fish with a silvery belly and an olive-green back. Fried like a doughnut in deep fat, it is a distinct delicacy. When smelts are running, they run in enormous schools, can be easily scooped up in hand nets. Last week 20,000 curious tourists were welcomed with open arms by the 15,000 natives of Escanaba, Mich, for that city's fourth annual smelt jamboree...
...Distinct advances have been made on the problem of converting the active principle of sarsparilla root into sex hormones. Fry probably will be engaged in continuation of the same problem...
Chairman Avery plastered President Roosevelt with plenty of blame for the new amendments to the Housing Act, however. Predicting that the easy credit it provides to would-be builders will not produce any housing boom, Chairman Avery dubbed the Administration's approach "superficial" in regarding building as a distinct industry. Said he, "Easy credit will not be an inducement to build homes which when built will not be worth what they cost." According to Sewell Avery, building represents a wide cross section of all U. S. industry and therefore will not revive until business as a whole regains confidence...
Such reporting by Better Times disturbs the parent Times much as a squeaking Leftist mouse would disturb a capitalist elephant. Most galling is Better Times's latest boast: "A distinct improvement in the New York Times handling of news from Rebel Spain was noticed by readers after the exposure of William Carney as Franco's press agent* in the last issue of Better Times. . . . Mr. [Publisher Arthur Hays] Sulzberger is quoted as saying of the Spanish War, I confess to a vast sense of relief that I do not have to take sides either with Loyalist or Rebel...
...know how you gentlemen feel, but I cannot help feeling . . . that there has been definite and distinct progress toward a spiritual reawakening. ... It is a very significant thing that this awakening has come about in America. It makes me realize more fully that we do have, in addition to the duty we owe to our own people, an additional duty to the rest of the world. Things have been going on in other countries, things which are not spiritual in any sense of the word-and that is putting it mildly...