Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Censure? More serious politically for Republicans than a Bonus declaration is the increasing Legion agitation to censure President Hoover for his treatment of the B. E. F. Such action would prove a distinct liability to him in November. Already eight States?Massa-chusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Illinois, Ohio, Texas and Mary-land?have passed resolutions condemning his use of the Army. When Assistant Secretary of War Davison tried to defend the President's action before the New York convention, he was booed and hissed ?but a censure resolution was beaten...
...years ago, the first great U. S. bird painter, John James Audubon. finished his huge folio of 435 hand-colored engravings, in a subscribed edition of 161. Until last fortnight it stood as the one monumental achievement in American bird-portraiture. But compared with Audubon's 489 supposedly distinct species. Rex Brasher (pronounced Bray-sher) has done 900 plates showing 1,200 species of North American birds. Every coloration difference due to age, sex, season or (as with the caracara) attitude, has been shown, bringing the total of figures to 3.000. All are based on sketches drawn in the field...
...treatment, it may be by diet, physicotherapy. and relaxation under controlled observation. Such treatment or education of the man and his tissues might take several weeks, and in most instances it would be advantageous for such patients to continue their ordinary avocations. We need a new type of institution?distinct from hospital provision?namely, a Health Hotel...
Eight Keynotes. Considering that one-quarter of the world's population was rep resented at the Conference, with eight distinct His Majesty's Governments* represented, the Conference did well to finish its keynoting on the first...
...spots of typhus fever and of typhoid fever often look alike and account for an ancient confusion of the two distinct diseases. There is a simple way to distinguish between the two. When pressed down by a piece of glass, typhoid spots disappear from sight completely. Typhus spots when similarly squeezed become pale but do not disappear...