Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the Northeast Foreland lip to Peary Land. It discovered that a mountain range beginning at a deepcut mouth, Denmark Fjord, runs out on the lip. Skimming over vast desolate plains lying between this range and the great inland mountain chain. Dr. Koch concluded that their geological histories were distinct...
...rode together in a streetcar marked Socialism, but I got off at the stop 'Independent Poland ' " Josef Pilsudski "got off" by desperate battling as commander of his Polish Legions who fought Imperial Russia during the World War, sometimes under their own ensign, sometimes as units-but always distinct units-in the hospitable armies of Imperial Austria. Today such old campaigners as Josef Stalin and Josef Pilsudski can understand each other even hough their dictatorships are different. Both, of course, disclaim being dictators. Comrade Stalin says he is only the Secretary of the Communist Party. Marshal Pilsudski is only...
...Admittedly a central dining hall is a social asset and a convenience, vital to Summer School but it would serve its purpose better if there were fewer complaints about the food. One who has eaten in the Union or the House Dining Halls during the college year notices a distinct change for the worse. In the summer, it is a task to please the palate of everyone. The difficulty is not the food, or the quality, but the lack of variety and the tasteless way the dishes are prepared and served...
...world knows about the Boston Athenaeum; few know that non-members are not only allowed, but invited, to push open its massive doors at 10 1-2 Beacon street. It would be a distinct breach to ask to see the famous collection of "scruple" books in which the members dip at will; and you mustn't even cast a longing eye at the Vanity Fairs laid out in the magaxine reading room. The Athenaeum, however, is a place no explorer should miss, even if the glimpse is a brief one, for the Athenaeum is the distilled quintessence of Bostonlanism. Hours...
Last week tin plate production boomed up to 100% of capacity-highest level in its 40 years of history. But not since the trust-forming days of William Bateman Leeds, the one & only tin plate king, has there been a tin plate industry, separate and distinct. "Tin Plate" Leeds and his fabulous friends, Judge William Moore, promoter extraordinary, and Daniel Gray ("Czar") Reid, tossed their tin plate trust into T. S. Steel Corp. at a price which made the Elder John Pierpont Morgan groan. What they did keep was the tin can trust. Today most tin plate is made...