Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their disposal would permit to advance the academic career and to sustain it on a constantly higher level of opportunity and satisfaction. To strengthen the academic career and to make it still more attractive to young men and young women of good ability and fine ambition, means doing three distinct things, as well as doing them quickly and well...
...well challenged, there is little doubt that the existence of the Rhodes Foundation provides an important strand in the cultural cable between the old world and the new. Any step taken by the trustees of the fund to improve the practical details of their work is not without distinct interest to those who believe in international understanding as the best basis for international peace. The changes in the mechanics of the American Rhodes administration announced yesterday by President Aydelotte have a direct bearing on the efficiency of the scholarships...
...operating man (as distinct from a finance man), Mr. Cobb is a hardworking, quick-spoken executive. He is a fishing & hunting enthusiast and each year takes two four-to-six-week vacations with which nothing can interfere. Last fall he was on one of his hunting trips when the market crashed. Mr. Cobb let it crash and kept on hunting. His reading consists largely of outdoor magazines and of biographies. He also sees nearly every play of every season. He has three daughters; lives at No. 270 Park Avenue, Manhattan...
...tutorial system is the greatest objection which can be raised to justify their exclusion. Yet there are many who feel that the School has reached a critical stage. Either it must strike off independently of the College than is now the case, assuming a relation like that of the distinct graduate school, or it must identify itself more completely with the academic branch. This latter relation would presuppose the adoption of the House Plan in some form...
...Four distinct reverberations followed...