Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Gore '34 and Ned Hickey '34, who have been in charge of debating at the Union this year, will select the third speaker from the Freshman Class. The three speeches by undergraduates will occupy about forty-five minutes and will represent three distinct angles of the present undergraduate life, the Freshman year, athletics, and general undergraduate life...
Listeners who had formed their impression of Communism from the Hearst Press must have received a distinct shock when small, sandy-haired Comrade Browder, son of a Kansas schoolteacher and longtime certified public accountant, began to speak in the tone of a mild, ingratiating Midwestern college professor. As he went on, alert listeners realized that most of his sentences could have been lifted almost verbatim from the speeches of the nation's most famed and respectable public characters. Samples...
...dispute over the recent Harvard-Yale boxing match was due to an honest difference of opinion. A distinct ambiguity in the rules resulted in a difficult decision of the pivotal Huffman-Olney bout. The final judgement on this question must be placed before a competent authority, and its decision accepted in a spirit of common sense and mutual regard for the opposite point of view...
...favor of the oath, for it is a stupid way of getting loyalty. The regimentation and discipline is further evidence of the increasing catholicism of state affairs. The results will be that teachers will be more careful of their liberties and will separate into distinct groups for and against the state...
Ostensibly Sir Austen had been speaking on the bill of Rear Admiral Sir Murray Sueter to replace the "squirrels" of the Imperial Defense Committee with a Ministry of Defense to coordinate Navy, Air Force and Army under a single Minister distinct from the Prime Minister. A parliamentary stickler, Sir Austen argued against this private bill which thereupon was withdrawn; argued for a similar reform by the Government, thus associating himself with His Majesty's Government in debate. Yet in so doing Sir Austen delivered the maximum blow to "Bumbler Baldwin." After Sir Austen resumed his seat, the House...