Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cheerful side of the infantile paralysis problem, Claus W. Jungeblut of Columbia University declared: "Although it is premature to draw any definite conclusions from this preliminary report, there seems to be a strong probability that Vitamin C, when injected in the proper dose, possesses distinct therapeutic power in experimental poliomyelitis...
...blame for headline troubles on the reporters. He was, he said, opposed to shipments of '"munitions," not "materials" of war to Italy. Blissfully unaware that in the language of statecraft "munitions of war" is the phrase used to denote oil and other war materials as distinct from cannon, machine guns and other "implements" of war, he gave the Press clearly to understand that he had no intention of stopping oil exports...
...that he would be better able to make up his mind as to the justice and wisdom of dismembering Ethiopia after he had read and heard the first reactions of news-organs and British political henchmen to the startling events in Paris-startling to millions who balloted under the distinct impression that His Majesty's Government intended to preserve, protect and defend through the League of Nations the territorial integrity of Ethiopia. Neither Squire Baldwin nor any member of the British Cabinet ever promised to do this. In respect to Ethiopia they merely promised to be sound and adequate...
...records of the Order Department show a distinct increase in the number of volumes bought, but the figure is far from equaling that of four years...
...League of Nations add oil, the lifeblood of Italy's war machine in Ethiopia, to the list of products banned under Sanctions, then Dictator Benito Mussolini might indeed do something silly. As the polished diplomatic game of understatements and euphemisms in three languages went on last week, a distinct possibility grew that, as in 1914, the talented Ambassadors, Foreign Ministers, Premiers, Presidents and Kings of Europe may find to their genuine surprise and dismay that a situation has been created calling for their soldiers, sailors and airmen...