Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provision of N. R. A. at stake is no minor portion of the recovery legislation. True, that insistence on the right of labor to organize in non-company unions may not be as important to business revival as certain other measures. Nevertheless, it would be a distinct step backward in our progressive legislation if labor is to be abandoned to the mercies of company unionism...
Every picture like Hei Tiki brings with it the hope that, in their painstaking investigation of Pacific nooks and crannies, cinema producers have at last discovered one island where the aborigines' routine is distinct from that pursued in all the other ocean fly specks. In the case of Hei Tiki, a widely exploited picture made on The Isle of Ghosts, New Zealand, by the one-time editor of Pearson's Magazine, these hopes seemed reasonable and it is therefore the more painful that they are not realized. In Hei Tiki, as usual, the chieftain's daughter takes...
...degenerate into a large-scale cramming outfit. But there is far more danger that an order from above imposing strict regulations as to hours and material to be covered will make of the Tutorial Conference a routine appointment. A careful reading of Dean Murdock's Report gives a distinct impression that the fundamental issue is being confused. Granted the reality of the pitfalls he is seeking to prevent--the point is not so much that the evils are inherent in the System as that they are developing through the weakness of a few individuals. Time and again systems far loss...
...whole, self-consistent as a science of government, but suggests the possibility of other sciences founded on different postulates. Even in the above arrangement it is doubtful whether government should be viewed simply as a "mechanism"; it is essentially dynamic, involving the exercise of power--rightful power as distinct from politics...
...Union, Adams House, and Vanderbilt Hall at the Medical School, have individual kitchens. A central kitchen in Smith Hall prepares the food for Leverett, Kirkland, Winthrop, Eliot, and Lowell. a system of tunnels quite distinct from the heating tunnels provides communication between Smith Hall and the other Houses through which heated food trucks convey soups, vegetables, roasts, etc. In each of the dining halls so served there is a serving kitchen, where the food from the general kitchen is kept hot and many articles such as chops, steaks, egg dishes and special orders are actually cooked. At the Business School...