Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whatever length of time a clever student might need to lope through it, ignored critics outside the University, passionately upheld the banner of academic freedom. Many a Chicago teacher, however, has been disconcerted by "Bob" Hutchins' exuberance, his insistence that colleges should present their students with "clear and distinct ideas...
...people what the higher learning is." Faculty members more interested in research than in teaching, he said, should be shunted off to special "research institutes," set free to explore "fundamental problems in metaphysics, social science, and natural science." President Hutchins also thought that universities in search of "clear and distinct ideas" might do well to revive the medieval schoolmen's trivium of rhetoric, grammar and logic, teach the young "the two most important elements of man as man, language and reason...
Tobacco was picked for this first experiment largely because it is not a major U. S. crop and most of it is grown on solid Democratic soil. Then, too, though there are about ten important tobacco States, not more than four control any one of the various distinct types of this crop...
...have often publicly lamented the need for a comprehensive civil service, similar to that of England. This bill, if passed, will set up an institution that will rival the traditional British "Cursus Honorum", Eton and Oxford, since it will create a class of public servants, as independent and as distinct as our present Army and Navy...
Thundering in from Berlin to London went airplane loads of the Realmleader's most experienced diplomats and most trusted advisers on foreign affairs. Captains of these two distinct groups are the Brothers-in-Law Dr. Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff & Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop. The former is a career diplomat of masterly attainments. The latter is a one-time German champagne salesman and husband of a German champagne heiress...