Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, such grand vistas have been opened in the educational landscape by this scheme that every effort should be made to preserve these, even at the expense of painting over other original aims. There are three separate and distinct aspects to the American Civilization Plan. First is its extra-curricular nature. This looks toward the inculcation of a habit of self-education in students, toward the provision of a "key to future education" which would make learning a life-long process. Second is its subject matter. This is American history in the broadest sense--cultural, scientific, and economic as well...
...different classes of criminals from one another. These features do not occur uniformly enough for individual diagnosis of a criminal type; but simply by occurring more frequently in the large groups of which they are characteristic, they serve, when statistically analyzed, to set aside these groups as anthropologically distinct...
...peered and poked at beds, chairs, desks, tables and sideboards that looked like classical pieces with the classical ornaments knocked off. Modernistic extremes were lacking, but living-room furniture was scaled down in size, upholstery was in modernistic shades of blue and pink. Proud Grand Rapidans called Kentwood a "distinct American style, capable of change to suit a changing world." Purists grumbled that it was a bastard style, neither classic nor modern...
Most of this animal language has a surprising range. The lion alone makes six distinct sounds, all the way from a hunting call to a grumble of satisfaction after the kill, when it roars "as gently as any sucking dove...
...whistling come from their own musical back yards. For want of a home-grown product even half as good, non-Germanic countries have had to import a large part of their concert music. But during the past 75 years composers in other countries have struggled to raise their own distinct national types of concert music, to produce symphonies, quartets, operas that are 100% Russian, Hungarian or American (jazz). Some have been fairly successful, especially those, like the Russians, who have had a rich store of national folk music to draw upon...