Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expressed by the President of the Student Council who hopes for an average contribution of twenty-five cents per spectator. Most gratifying of all is the announcement that a plan has at last been found which President Lowell "will not oppose." Judging from the past, this will entail a distinct effort on the part of the President...
...distinct occasions TIME had definitely promised future information, which as yet has not appeared. One, the fate of a liquor store selling openly on a downtown thoroughfare of New York City; the other, the vicissitudes that had attended the winner of the first prize of last year's English sweepstakes. Let TIME brush up on these breaches of promises and bring to light other forgotten instances...
...Borah-No. . . . I certainly see a distinct difference. . . . From George Washington's Farewell Address down that has been the teaching of the American people...
...surveyed the decision, found it to his liking. The Commission, by denying the horizontal increase (which might diverge more freight from the roads than the benefits would compensate for), felt that the lines "had been saved from the consequences of a mistake." Professor Ripley foresaw "a distinct betterment of outlook for the future." Others thought otherwise. Liberal Walter Lippmann colyumed in the New York Herald Tribune: "The Commission has evidently tried to select particular commodities, which either have not fallen in price as much as others or are so bulky and necessary that they have to be carried on railroads...
...speaker stressed that the three fields, logic, psychology, and epistemology must be kept distinct. He was introduced, and his lecture was amusingly epitomized by Professor A. N. Whitehead, who termed the greatest of the missing Platonic dialogues the "Dialogue of Bertrand Russell...