Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most portentous threat lies in the fact that the United States now stands at the wrong phase of two distinct influenza cycles. An influenza pandemic, which recurs every twenty to thirty years, has not been visited upon the world since 1918, when it killed twenty-one million people of whom half a million were Americans. The pandemic virus has been due to strike again since 1937. Less powerful viruses, the more common influenza "A" or "B", tend to run in five or six year cycles. Both are set for a re-appearance, since neither has been detected in epidemic form...
...there are many factors which qualify General Marshall for the job so there are several which severely disqualify him. First and fundamentally, he will be a military man in a civil post. As deTocqueville observed over a century ago, officers, in democratic armies "contract tastes and wants wholly distinct from those of the nation, a fact which may be thus accounted for: Among democratic nations that man who becomes an officers severs all the ties that bound him to civil life; he leaves it forever, and no interest urges him to return to it. . . . As the wants of an officer...
...work, he submitted to a sampling of twelve-year-old cheese, tasted a "health" beverage (turnip juice, elderberries and soybeans) brought in by an elderly artist, promised to try a new kind of bread made from orange peelings by a Russian inventor. Says he: "There is a distinct gastronomic hazard in this work. But I know of no other job in which I can catch a twenty-pound striped bass off Gay Head and listen to a first performance of a Copland symphony by Koussevitzky, both in the line of duty, in the same week -and get paid...
...problem of whether or not an A.B. degree should be distinct from an S.B., and perhaps be further subdivided according to fields of concentration, finds pressure bearing down on it from at least two sides. On one hand, answers to the Student Council poll of two weeks ago show that 85 percent of the College want a revision of the present system, and a majority of those would prefer the single degree in some form. Sixty-five percent of the student body definitely prefers the A.B. while only ten percent stands by the S.B. On the other hand, the College...
...reasons peculiar to Cambridge, the vets at Radcliffe form a more distinct group than those at Wellesley. While the current non-veteran 'Cliffe-dwellers are not snobs, "they seem so young and sheltered," one of the old soldiers said. "They act like they're in high school, interested primarily in social life and trying to get their studies out of the way instead of attempting to find out what it's all about." The veterans generally stick together, taking most of their meals around the Square and not living in the dormitories. "I spent three days...