Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Illinois River. Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. is principally concerned with selling gas to Chicagoans, gas made from coal and gas piped in from the Southwest. From this company James Simpson retired in 1935 because he felt management of gas arid electric companies in Chicago should be distinct. Last week, three days before he was 63, handsome, grey-suited Utilitarian Simpson went before a special meeting of Edison stockholders, asked for permission to put together all the old Insull utility companies in Northern Illinois except Peoples Gas into one great Chicagoland company reaching to the Mississippi River -a Commonwealth Edison...
...sister institutions," President James Rowland Angell commented that young men of unequivocal intellectual promise "should have made available to them, no matter in what part of the country they may be living, the opportunity for training at one of our great historic seats of learning is a matter of distinct national importance, for only as genuine talent is discovered and cultivated can we properly capitalize our human resources, only thus can we make progress out of the intellectual mediocrity which characterizes so much of our education...
...Showing distinct after-effects of the Toronto encounter, the Varsity Hockey team nevertheless had enough punch to keep the Dartmouth sextet back on its heels and blanked them 2 to 0 Saturday night at the Garden. Captain George Ford's two tallies, registered at 13:03 and 19:10 of the final session, saved the Stubbsmen from what had all the earmarks, up to that time, of a scoreless deadlock...
From the start Harvard has never belonged wholeheartedly to the ranks of intercollegiate fistcuffers. When the sport was added to the schedule in 1930, after much debate internal on the part of the A.A. Hierarchy, it was given a distinct, if tacit, probationary ranking. Since its inception the course which the sport has followed has tended to increase rather than diminish, the fears of the doubting Thomases. Rivals like M.I.T. and the Coast Guard failed to provide the kind of opposition the team needed, and with Virginia the only opponent worth its salt, the inadequacy of the rest...
Although perhaps a trific early for jubilation or hosannas, the news of the presentation of the American peace pact at Buenos Aires comes as a distinct omen for good and warrants further hope that the Pan-American conference will come out with something tangible to its credit. Too often in the past have the hopes of waiting nations been reduced to disillusionment through months of selfish quarrelings and too many times have delegations repacked their luggage to trail home empty-handed. Economic conferences, disarmament conferences, treaty revision conferences, battleship parleys, tariff discussions all have been proposed, all have been acclaimed...