Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have showed themselves to be great sportsmen, hard players of great endurance. Why not show the cast a few wrangler's tricks? For Harvard the game will not be a major one, but its importance in the Texas schedule cannot be inconsiderable. A victory over Harvard will be a distinct scalp for the belt of the bovine aggregation, and after coming the breadth of the country to take on the Crimson football men, the ranchers will not fail to offer enough material for the starved digestions of some home loving Cambridge dwellers...
Harvard's House teams are playing through a green grass stage at the present time, to such an extent, perhaps, that many people educated to the Stadium overlook the distinct pleasures of forming the gallery that fringes an unobtrusive football game, and of shouting to Joe and Bill. For the greatest number of people, the thousands of spectators of the present day game overshadow the sport atmosphere that really is an underlying aim of the whole thing. In the gymnasiums we see with amusement the pictures of some intersectional clash of the nineties, with a handful of people cheering...
...being examined closely at every point, both by its backers and its supporters. Nothing more useful could be done than to subject the tutorial system to the same scrutiny with an eye toward dovetailing the two into an harmonious whole. The Student Council committee has done a distinct service in submitting the report which is made public today. Close examination of facts, candid criticism of existing conditions, sound suggestions for improvement all these factors make the report a notable...
...country. ... No President ever gives universal satisfaction. . . . Those who are suggesting . . .that a former President should use his prestige to secure a nomination against a President of his own party probably have not stopped to consider fully what would be implied by such a course. ... It would be a distinct disservice to promote a factional conflict against a President in office. ... In times like these the duty to support the Executive comes very close to the duty to support the law. . . . "There is every indication that the coming winter will be one of much hardship for a great many people...
Biographer Bradford recalled that ten years ago Professor Ambrose White Vernon established at Carleton College (Northfield, Minn.) "the first distinct department of biography in this country and so far as I know in the world." Few years later President Ernest Martin Hopkins invited Professor Vernon to Dartmouth to conduct a similar department there. "Professor Vernon's interest and his instruction in biography do not turn upon what is merely gossipy and superficial, but upon the points of deeper significance. . . . Some of the most promising undergraduates have shown an eager interest and in many cases have gone out to propagate...