Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andean Man, a stocky individual with a broad chest and purplish-ruddy complexion, is the special interest of Dr. Carlos Monge, founder of Peru's National Institute of Andean Biology. Dr. Monge regards him as a distinct climatological variety of the human race. The institute was founded (in 1930) to study the Andean Indian and thus to find ways of making the mountains livable for newcomers, both human and animal. At first, Dr. Monge had almost no money or trained help and made little progress. (Once, when he sent rabbits to Huancayo for observation, the observer ate them...
...Broadway could look back with greater pride on 1946-47 than on any other season since Pearl Harbor. There was no call to use the fancier adjectives; no forgetting a long procession of triteness and trash. But beyond a discernible increase in merit, there was a distinct effect of movement-of a theater aiming to get places, and not just by the same old routes...
Last week George Turner's promotion stirred up a messy labor dispute. First, Turner's ten fellow constables at Billingsgate walked off their jobs (they are Corporation of London employees, distinct from London's police bobbies). Upping Turner, they insisted, was rank favoritism: each should have been given the chance to apply for the promotion. Out also went many of Billingsgate's cleaners. Conscientious Constable Turner, they angrily charged, had stooped unfairly to help the superintendent hose down a messy corner of the fish market...
...Louis Cohen, who teaches legal psychiatry at Yale, and Dr. Thomas Coffin, assistant professor of psychology at Hofstra College, riffled through the clues left by 18 psychotic murderers. Their conclusion: mad killers seem to commit their murders in a distinct pattern; there is seldom enough method in their madness to fool the dumbest flatfoot...
...water lilies and other aquatic plants, the Democratic National Convention of 1912 ("I was there"), labor unions in Eastern Pennsylvania, the French horn, the U.S. textile industry and its ramifications, commercial fishing, religious orders of the Episcopal Church, French schools, Russian art, Australian slang, Washington, D.C. bureaucracy ("as distinct from political & diplomatic Washington"), dairy farm terminology, Sauk Centre, Minn., water polo, Austrian dialects, the game of Go, harness racing...