Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cordially commend to all the people the observance of Better Homes Week," said President Hoover last week. "Everything that can be done to make home life pleasanter is a distinct contribution . . . to the highest spiritual values of life." As their contribution to Better Homes Week the President & Mrs. Hoover with six friends ate a meal (split pea soup, meat & rice loaf; baked potatoes, cabbage, carrot salad, lemon bread pudding) that cost 23.6¢ a plate, cooked and served by Girl Scouts at their Little House in Washington...
Throughout the game both teams played schoolboy baseball, the Crimson team coming out on top through timely hitting, after the bases had been loaded by passes, wild throws, and errors. Both pitchers evidenced distinct lack of control throughout the game, and while the Harvard bitting showed improvement, the fielding was as lethargic and ragged as in most all the previous games...
...easing Winston out, in welcoming Neville in, there is a distinct probability that Mr. Baldwin was nominating his successor. It is no secret that he yearns to retire, that he wrote out his resignation as Conservative Leader while watering at Aix-les-Bains last summer, that pious Mrs. Baldwin made him tear the resignation up, invoking DUTY...
There are without doubt large numbers of people in this country, although perhaps a distinct minority, who, convinced that even the triumphs of war are Pyrrhic victories feel a moral obligation to refuse to fight. By uniting these men, the "Youth's Peace Federation" may weld together an important force for the prevention of war. In any case, the Federation has contributed much to the cause of peace by adding its weight to the growing movement of "militant pacifism...
...last two days the Vagabond has been looking into this carrillon question. He has discovered, among other things, that every good musical bell should have five distinct tones, all in harmony, and he has also found that the lower the tone of the bell, the more difficult to distinguish the different tones. Now the Vagabond makes no claim to being a carrilloneur, but he can hear a quantity of quite superfluous tones in the bass bell of Lowell House. And since there are five tones to each bell and there are nineteen bells, that would make ninety-five tones...