Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chicago Tribune first jolted its readers with remarkably clear continuity pictures of Golden Gloves boxers in action, followed with a strip of Pitcher Dizzy Dean from windup to finish. Cameraddicts knew that no ordinary motion picture film could produce such distinct "stills." The Tribune's camera was invented by one Lewis H. Moomaw of suburban Wilmette, a onetime small producer of Hollywood cinemas, lately in the engineering department of Stewart-Warner Corp. All he would say about his camera was that it contains a prism, will take a series of quick flashes faster than a cinema camera...
...organization is distinct from the existing Intercollegiate Swimming Association, of which Harvard, Princeton, and Dartmouth are not members because of the inclusion of water polo. Whether the two leagues will continue to exist together, or whether the new body will replace the old, has not been determined...
Those who make the theatre a business instead of a political arena were not surprised that Parade's three distinct assets-a dancer, a designer, a comedian-were old hands from Broadway and not Union Square. Spry, mad-eyed little Esther Junger (Life Begins at 8:40), clad in bold costumes by Constance Ripley, appeals to other senses than that of social injustice when she performs wildly in the Cuban sugar cane. And shy little Jimmy Savo is most capable not when he is being beset by police, or starving in the street, or dying of appendicitis...
...hopes these rules will give it what it thought it was gaining when Section ya became law. The company unions will supposedly suffer. The A. F. of L., being already organized, will have a distinct advantage over all other unions. It can bide its time until it gains a majority of the workers in any plant, then secure an election," and with its majority gain the sole right of bargaining in that plant, a hold which it is not likely to lose once gained, for no employe could have any object in joining a minority union...
...Djibouti in French Somaliland is the port of entry for all Abyssinia, and France already controls the only railroad in the country, that between Djibouti and Addis Ababa. There is little reason for her to waste men and money in the country. But France and Britain have one most distinct reason for wishing some white nation to control Abyssinia. For four years Japan has been quietly penetrating the country. Japanese farmers are growing Abyssinian cotton with increasing success, they have grabbed her textile market from under Britain's nose, they are becoming more and more free of dependence...