Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captains of Curiosity. Forty years ago when Science was called "stinks'' by schoolboys and signified invention to most grownups, physics, chemistry and astronomy were distinct branches. Today physics not only encompasses the whole of the other two sciences but has confiscated and developed for its own purposes a third-pure mathematics. Modern physics is the spearhead of man's effort to discover and describe the essential nature of the universe...
...ready to carry mail 45 days hence. Most vociferous was President Richard W. Robbins of Transcontinental & Western Air ("The Lindbergh Line"). Using such words as "insane," "crazy quilt," "ghastly blunder," "gorgeous comedy of public error," Mr. Robbins described last week's call for temporary bids as the "eighth distinct and conflicting policy adopted by the Post Office Department within . . . six weeks...
...broad acres of Col. Hobart Ames's plantation near Grand Junction, Tenn. Tall, old Col. Ames this year had new stories to tell his guests about the curious cherry-red quail on his preserve (TIME, March 13, 1933), now recognized by the Department of Agriculture as a distinct species. Ever since 1909, when Manitoba Rap began the fashion, the national champion ship has been largely an affair for pointers, though a setter, Feagin's Mohawk Pal, won three times (1927, 1928, 1930). This year it looked as if a setter might come through again. Louis M. Bobbitt...
...fought off their tormentors, and in 1531 a few unconquered survivors retreated west to the high Sierras, where their descendants still live. A few yellowed pages of Spanish historians shed some light on the Coclée culture before it was destroyed. The Coclés had several distinct castes. Aris- tocrats painted and tattooed themselves, wore few clothes, as many precious ornaments as they could. The women supported their breasts on a pair of golden bars which were carried by thongs over the shoulders. For protection the fighters had golden helmets, golden elbow-length cuffs, golden greaves. For arms...
...reading over pocket scores in trains, at meals, in bed, he had developed such clear ideas on the meaning of each phrase and nuance. First thing he did was to reseat the orchestra, putting the first violins on one side, the second violins on the other, to hear two distinct voices instead of one massed tone. Next he instructed the fiddlers to make their bows move as one, whether Stokowski fussed about such things or not. The Mozart-Kleine Nacht Musik started off too delicately to suit him. "Excuse me," he shouted. "It is too fairy. Mozart was very...