Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gets nothing in return. Keppel, stressing Professor Merriman's concept of unity, emphasized that the United States is held together by a common language and common cultural aims and stated that New England by itself would not have adequate defense. Calvocoressi then declared that New England is culturally distinct from the rest of the country and called the Middle West a parasite fattening itself from New England. Kaufman, the last speaker, begged the audience to pity New England if she secedes, since she cannot be self-sufficient. He closed his speech by painting a picture of rats emerging from Boston...
...seasons, Mr. Kidder has been working in the Venezuelan area, at Lake Valencia, 70 miles west of the capital, Caracas, and among the caves of the Andes. Two distinct cultures have been unearthed and there seems to be evidence of a third...
...chemists, according to Dr. Urey, the greatest importance of heavy hydrogen is that exchange reactions involving hydrogen can be traced, since the heavy and light atoms are as distinct as red and green. To physicists, the heavy nucleus, the deuton, has proved an invaluable atom-smashing projectile. To commercial chemists, interaction experiments between hydrogen and heavy hydrogen at low temperatures have offered hope that the cost of synthesizing alcohols and ammonia may be drastically reduced...
...City Water Department, their entry into the fray comes as a distinct surprise. New excavations recently appeared on Quincy Street above the Union, so that everyone thought the Department was going to concentrate on digging up that boulevard, which was recently successfully repave through the efforts of the same outfit. But early yesterday morning, they sneaked around to the other side of the Yard, where seen two nice, six-foot deep holes appeared in the sidewalk behind Straus Hall
Pullman is a holding company controlling two distinct organizations. One is The Pullman Co., which has a practical monopoly on railroad comfort.* The other is Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp., which is one of the biggest U. S. makers of railroad rolling stock. Lately Pullman's equipment business has fattened on railroad orders financed with PWA loans. It built Union Pacific's two streamlined, high-speed trains, has orders booked for two more. From Pullman, Illinois Central also wants an experimental five-car train...