Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said the Yale News: "The only distinct and undeniable advantage of the modern fraternity is that it possesses all the facilities for a complete game of billiards...
...bombing, pursuit and attack planes in five wings, concentrated on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts and in the Middle West. Recommended in the Baker Committee report on Army aviation (TIME, July 30), the GHQ Air Force will virtually constitute a separate Air Corps-a fighting unit distinct from the observation groups which function directly with ground troops in tactical operations...
...Distinct increases in the enrollment of English 28, Economics A, and Geology 1 were disclosed in the preliminary figures on Freshman courses released by University Hall yesterday afternoon. The most significant losses in enrollment have been felt by French 2 and English 79 which both have 102 men less than last year...
...President which has not been forthcoming. The resignation of General Johnson and the growing importance of Richberg in the NRA has aroused more intensely vague fears which many have held during the last month or two that Mr. Roosevelt threw no oil on the troubled waters. He showed a distinct inclination, however, to pass off most of this criticism as vague rumor which no one should believe. He did say that it was valuable for the people of the country to think but he did not assuage their suspicious by one definite statement...
...Major Angas says that "It is ridiculous not to buy common stocks 1) when a country is inflating (early stages as distinct from late), 2) when the second year of revival has begun, 3) when money is cheap and bank reserves are unstrained, 4) when the nation's exchanges are not overvalued, 5) when the market has reacted from the recent highs by the normal amount for the normal period and 6) when the Government has declared to raise prices, and has unlimited powers to do so." Date of the coming rise: "At a guess . . . before...