Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another wrong notion about canned foods is the idea that the liquid in a can of vegetables, like peas or beans, should be drained off and not used. Formerly this liquor was sometimes too salty, but not at present. That juice contains valuable nutrients, and discarding it is a distinct waste...
...their official communique Statesmen Benes, Yevtitch & Titulescu used if possible even stronger language. "In order to mark sharply the transformation of the [Little] Entente into an international community having a distinct personality." they declared, "the three Foreign Ministers have decided that every political treaty of each State of the Entente, every unilateral act changing the existing political situation of one of the Entente States toward an outside State, as well as every economic agreement involving important political consequences require henceforth the unanimous consent of the Council of the Entente...
Officially the Division approaches its field by the "historical method," a vague phrase meant to suggest perhaps that it is more interested in cultivating gentlemen or scholars, than in training creative artists or enthusing aesthetes. More closely examined their educational system is seen to be a combination of three distinct attitudes towards the Fine Arts. They may be regarded as a set of values to be cultivated for their own sake; they may be studied as an achievement of the human mind, and considered from the point of view of style and of technique; they may be pursued...
These three approaches are regarded as phases of one subject, and in practice no distinction is made between them. The majority of courses are given confusedly now from this angle now from that. Actually there are two distinct fields of study: style and aesthetic sensitivity; History and Fine Arts. The one is essentially subjective, the other equally objective...
...Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard has spoken of "separating future creative scholars into a distinct body. . . . Such an atmosphere should carry intellectual contagion beyond anything now in this country.'' Dr. Lowell has also referred often to "the stranglehold of the Ph. D." on education. To loosen it at Harvard he announced last week a "Society of Fellows -24 young men who will spend three years in comfortable study, free of any academic regulation and lured by no prospect of credits or degrees. Graduates of any college, aged 25 or younger, they will be known as "Junior Prize Fellows...