Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other events, which are distinct from the competition for the diving cup, the three men to place will receive medals...
Space forbids a detailed description of the Vagabond's efforts in tracking down this grotesque perversion, but suffice it to say he has always noticed that the chairs in Widener fall into two distinct groups: those that squeak, and those that don't. Everyone knows that. Well, yesterday morning the Vagabond was lolling in one of the new non-squeakers at table 21, when he noticed something about the arrangement of the chairs that made his eyes dilate with horror. All the non-squeakers in the room were concentrated in the immediate neighborhood of the central information desk...
...Knabenshue, pioneer airshipman, allege that acid had been poured on the late great Macon's girders and guy-wires by the Filipino mess-boy who lost his life in the airship crash. Though Commander Wiley pooh-poohed the suggestion, high Navy officials admitted sabotage was a "distinct possibility...
...public debt of nearly 40 billion dollars--or one-fifth of the entire national wealth--should serve as a bracing tonic to even slow-witted treasury officials. Admittedly, the Administration is not entirely et blame as the recent survey report of the United States Conference of Mayors shows the distinct tendency of larging cities to pass their local relief burdens along to the federal government. Only five of the thirty-seven larger cities paid as much as one-third of their own relief bills for last year. That such conditions continue to exist, is abominable, and sooner or later...
...Benito Mussolini and Pierre Laval (TIME, Jan. 14), then re-recorded at London in the Franco-British agreement of Premier Flandin with His Majesty's Government (TIME, Feb. 11) . In Paris last week Fascist Schuschnigg, incessantly guarded by popping motorcycle police "à l'Américaine" (a distinct novelty in France), had really nothing to do except to pin upon sad-eyed French President Albert Lebrun the Grand Cross of Austrian Merit and be pinned in return with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Since devout Catholic Schuschnigg is a passionate Monarchist he explained...