Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general outlook presented by the beer situation is that of a distinct blot, with few highlights. Harvard is directly affected by the clause forbidding sale to minors, which only constrains large institutions who do not need it, and which will be avoided completely by those to whom it should apply; but the state at large is touched by the whole affair. It is an example of the sort of precipitate absurdity which has for years furnished Mr. Mencken with subjects for his articles, and which has created all the connotations which attach to the word, "America...
Today a farmer thirsting for a loan from his Government is shuttled back & forth among eight separate and distinct Federal credit spigots. Last week President Roosevelt moved to save him time and trouble and the U. S. $2,000,000 a year by consolidating all eight spigots into one Farm Credit Administration...
Trend. Cities like Buffalo are accustomed to four distinct types of local publications: daily newspapers for national and local news; country-clubby monthlies for social chatter; chamber-of-commercy magazines to brag about the city and back-pat its bigwigs; and, after the success of The New Yorker, a rash of local smart-charts broke out, flourished briefly, faded away. Buffalo last week was the scene of a new kind of small-city journalistic enterprise. Out came a four-page tabloid to review and, where possible, go behind the week's local news, develop news personalities. It was called...
...Princeton team will be heavily favored in this match because of their 19 1/2-7 victory over the Varsity on February 24. In this game Captain Raymond Firestone of Princeton scored nine goals, and his teammate William Sullivan tallied eight times. Since then, however, Harvard has shown a distinct improvement in teamplay, and has at times given evidence of a remarkable ability to come from behind in a difficult match...
...preferring a particular House other than the fact that everybody else seems to be going there. The outcome of this stampeding has been deplorable; the desired cross sections are in certain cases either non-existent or overbalanced at one end, the demarcations of the different groups have become too distinct, men who only obtained their fourth or fifth choices are disgruntled, and in general snobbishness is at a premium in the Houses...