Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...welcomes, lover's desire she abhors. "Desire is a half-god," she affirms. "Let's leave the half-gods to the adolescent girls and the casually married." In the battle of wits and wills between the omnipotent god and the constant matron, Jupiter is charmed into a distinct loss of dignity and self-esteem as the price of his stolen night...
...course the apparently minor matter of how sensible it is for a mass of grown and theoretically intelligent inhabitants to mill around a pair of white sticks, no longer seems to be one of importance. It is well known that Harvard students constitute a distinct minority in the weekly storming of the Bastille, but the fact that any are there at all would seem to indicate that some modification of the admission rules might be desirable...
...sports season soon starts feeling its strength. Time comes for asking what here you got. Football scribes rub their chins and don't say very much. Asked about Harvard soccer, the good scribe does the same thing but he might put his tongue in his check. There is a distinct feeling that Varsity Coach Jack Carr may be about to open a golden...
...Eliot, was described by Walter Lippmann '10, as a "catch-adcatch-can wresting match." Lippmann writing in the special CRIMSON issue released upon the occasion of Copey's 75th birthday, said of him: "Copey was not a professor teaching a crowd in a class room. He was a very distinct person in a unique relationship with each individual who interested...
...present in quantities much greater than this proportion it can be detected. Thus if a man weighing 160 lb. drinks 20 drops of heavy water, the excess of deuterium will show in his urine. Biologists have been quick to see that, with two kinds of hydrogen atoms as distinct as red and green, a neat method was available for tracing the course of hydrogen-bearing compounds in body processes. Scientists in Germany have already found by this means that half the water which they drank stayed in their bodies nine days, although some was excreted...