Word: distinctive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...borrowed half a gram of radium from Johns Hopkins University to discover the flaws. Capable of penetrating 16 in. armor plate, the radium's gammarays were used to photograph the rudder castings much as a dentist x-rays a tooth. Flaws or pockets in the steel showed as distinct blotches in the finished pictures...
...exception of the 800 distinct species and 400 subspecies has been Harris's sparrow (Zonotrichia querula), a stripe-headed little thing which breeds around Churchill, migrates eastward to western Ontaria and, in winter, as far south as southern Texas...
Calling their union the largest ever to take place between denominations entirely distinct in origin and history,* churchmen hoped its consummation would move other denominations to merge, perhaps later to join with them...
...fellow Rotarians during their visit. Most complex item of Rotarian business to be settled: whereas each Rotary club admits only one representative of each profession; and whereas in India and the Malay Peninsula the British lawyer and native lawyer practice in different courts; shall their practices be designated as distinct professions, a member of each admitted...
...craftsmen, came to England, where he was soon after named Royal Goldsmith. A large "lion" tankard, bearing the arms of the City of London, is another conspicuous piece, while a silver seal-box, containing the wax seal of the first ruling member of the House of Hanover is of distinct historical value. The rest of the collection consists of delicately worked taper-sticks, a "humpty-dumpty" pitcher, a pair of baptismal shells, and other items of artistic interest...