Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have had a number of similar squibs or observations from the issues of this paper called to my attention, showing a distinct anti-Semitic tendency...
Certainly both teams should score, judging from their records so far this season. In fact a week ago Harvard would have been a distinct though ragged favorite, but Brown's performance in upsetting Syracuse last Saturday gave the dopesters food for thought that was definitely unfavorable to Eddie Casey's proteges. The loss of Franny Lane and the probability that Captain Johnny Dean will be on the sidelines most of the time will give Harvard an added handicap...
...those who had thought that football movies had died out with Red Grange's "One Minute to Play," the Universal production. "Saturdays Millions" will come as a distinct surprise. Yet other than its tardiness, the picture has some other novelties: the hero is not quite so noble, the coach not quite so tough, and the heroine not quite so saccharine as their 1929 predecessors...
...write into the statute books of the Commonwealth, "Intoxicating beverages shall not be sold to anyone under the age of eighteen," will undoubtedly be a distinct shock to the type of people who like to believe that it is not suitable for young men of the age between eighteen and twenty-one to drink, and therefore should not be allowed to. The fact remains, however, that young men of this age do drink, and, what is more, nothing will stop them. It is far more appropriate to discriminate between the school boy and the college man, who is supposedly taking...
...well fixed in the middle of the line. He starts with Kilcullen and Clare Curtin, both big, experienced tackles, and he can fall back on Bob "Tiger" Taylor and Sid Stein, a pair of mammoth Sophomores. At guards he has veterans Ed Nichols and Jimmy DeAngelis, both speedy, a distinct advantage in the Eli attack. Webb Davis, Dick Crampton, and Ben Grosscup leave the Eli coach well equipped with guard material. At center there is Vic Malin, 240-pound Senior, who has seen service all through college, and he is backed up by Dick Barr, pivot on last year...