Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...region which included Constantinople during the Great War. General Kemal the defender, when introduced, explained that while his name was Kemal and spelled exactly as Dictator Kemal spells his, there was no relationship. I doubt if your readers realized by reading your article that you were talking about two distinct outstanding Turkish characters, the Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha and General Kemal, the defender...
...Committee on the Costs of Medical regarded it with contempt. In recent years the progressive evolution of osteopathy, the modification of its 'theory,' and the elevation of professional and educational standards have led doctors of medicine to assume a more tolerant and less hostile attitude. There is distinct evidence to the effect that with the further elevation of osteopathic standards the osteopaths will be assimilated into the regular body of medical practitioners...
...have been left in the dark about such problems, perforce content to take the word of experts who have attained facility in experimental technique or glibness in professional jargon. Our own School--to quote its catalogue--endeavors to place "the technical training of teachers and school officers under a distinct professional organization parallel to the schools of Law, Medicine, Divinity, and (God save the mark!) Business Administration...
...expression as could be, is this: the Senior Tutor and the House Master have complete authority; whereas formerly the House Master was unable to allow a single student and woman guest to enter a college room, now the Master or Tutor may give such permission. This is a distinct liberalization of the rules...
...eight vessels estimated to have cost the Government in the neighborhood of $8,000,000. These ships are now engaged from the Pacific Northwest and California via the Panama Canal to Porto Rico and Buenos Aires, principally for the purpose of marketing lumber. This firm was thus granted distinct monopolistic privileges by the Government in the marketing of lumber in Porto Rico and Argentine, and accordingly proceeded to "squeeze out" of these markets any competing American firms who were left without transportation facilities...