Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...awarded $1 punitive damages. Individual jurors later explained that they wanted to save their fellow townsman the costs of the trial. Their zeal was misdirected, since Plaintiff Baugh was obliged to pay the costs anyway. Lawyer Neylan & Client Hearst considered disposal of a $225.000 suit for $1 net a distinct victory...
First he employed flattery to put both Congress and the people in a responsive mood. Of the Congress which has passed but one major measure in 17 weeks he declared: "The Congress . . . has made and is making distinct progress...
...clinches in Hollis, those dreaded exposures in the class room, the searching intimacy from which all protection was removed, were in fact a continuing demonstration against mass instruction and the regimentation of learning. Copey was not a professor teaching a crowd in a class room. He was a very distinct person in a unique relationship with each individual who interested...
Harvard's policy with regard to meal contracts in the Houses bears distinct traces of petty tyranny. To declare a willingness to cooperate with members of Clubs, who wish to eat a certain number of their meals outside the Houses, and then to place a needless obstacle in the way of their doing it, must be viewed as more hypocrisy...
...already earn the University a neat profit. Although this profit is used for a worthy cause, it is profit nevertheloan, thus amashing any excuse that the high rates for the small contracts are economically necessary. It has been argued, also rather illogically, that club members not only form a distinct minority, but also make up the wealthiest group of students at Harvard. Neither of these proposals should be considered seriously. It is as important to recognize the position of a minority on this point as it would be on the most burning social question. Nor should the wealth...