Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Here the book becomes interesting but unreliable because no one can predict on so vast a scale and expect to be believed. However, the weighing of the respective strengths and weaknesses of socialism and capitalism is particularly good and saves this last part of the work from becoming a distinct detriment...
...twenty-fifth reunion is an occasion of gaiety and comedy for many but it becomes tragic even in its moments of forced jollity when the less fortunate members of the class look about them. A man is either a success or a distinct failure in his own view by the time of his twenty-fifth anniversary. And never is the fact of an alumnus' spiritual or financial short-coming more deeply or permanently impressed upon him than at such reunions when close comparisons are made and inequalities are evident...
...near the works a lodge wherein to serve meals and prepare their stones. To these lodges no persons were admitted but freemasons initiated in the craft's mysteries, which included not only sure means of identification but technical secrets. Scottish and Irish lodges were formed, remain distinct type parents of lodges everywhere today. Minutes and "charges" to neophytes were written down, the date of the earliest preserved being approximately fixed...
...inclusion of the three Germans in the principal memorial. The Corporation and the president have acted, and it is hardly possible that they will retreat. But retreat is impossible for those whose minds have risen above mere donations and pledges; for those who see the absurdity of two distinct memorials to one group...
...fraternity life at college grew out of the desire for closer contacts between small groups as distinct from the university society of the large university. With the inevitability of "cliques," social intimacy was frankly sponsored, and intellectual pursuits stimulated. That is, perhaps a roseate picture, but at least the fraternity in its infancy approached these ideals. Today, however, the scene has changed: we do not attempt to approximate one tithe of our former self. Socially speaking, groups of one hundred, more or less, are not exclusive nor intimate. Almost without exception fraternities have recognized that they can benefit solely through...