Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where public opinion will be aroused and Americans liberate themselves from the domination of those who are a distinct minority in this country. C. H. Ehiers
...direction of divorcement of tutorial work from all ordinary teaching, which will be viewed with interest by all educators, especially if it goes to the extent of attempting to divorce tutorial teaching from graduate teaching and research. Woodrow Wilson intended for his preceptors to be merely teachers, as distinct from productive scholars. Most educational critics of sound judgment--and we, with judgment perhaps not so sound--hold that this is based upon spurious notions of what constitutes good teaching, and leads to shoddy instruction as well for undergraduates. The reports in the "News" are rather vague, but we cannot believe...
...flee the city for Nassau or Bermuda, any place to sit in the sun. But most afternoons he is hustling downtown, first to the barber who for 23 years has combed his hair and shaved him, then to the office. He has seen the music-publishing business in three distinct phases: 1) when songs sold for a dime and made little profit; 2) when the price reached 30? and people gladly paid it; 3) when radio came along, cut the sale of a hit from 2,000,000 to 200,000 copies, the life of a song from a year...
...Buck, who undoubtedly merits the position of premier dramatic big-game hunter, also includes kin his narration such additional curiosities of pygmy doors and armored rhinoceri. Unless you have a distinct aversion to the annals of the jungle, "Wild Cargo" should prove interesting...
...race will be over the mile and a half course on the Severn river thus giving the opposing craws a distinct advantage over the Crimson eight which is designed principally, for distance race. Navy and Penn are both rated as fast crews despite Princeton's defeat of the former and Yale's victory over Pennsylvania on the Harlem...