Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distinct kinds of amnesia, epileptic or hysterical, could harmonize with the data, according to Dr. Lennox. The duration of West's absence, however, points to the hysterical variety, he observed, which commonly lasts for over a week...
...disapproval of Armed forces monopoly of the atom emerged from the two-day session as a situation detrimental to scientific initiative. William A. Higinbotham, executive secretary of the Federation of American Scientists, saw the absence of a presidential appointment to the chairmanship of the Atomic Energy Commission as a distinct trend is the militaristic direction...
Insufficient acting talent to supply two distinct reading groups will bring the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Veterans Workshop together Wednesday for their first joint venture...
Discussion centered around the whole problem of elective versus appointive offices and the manner of election. Distinct differences of opinion arose on these questions, one group holding that the function of the Council should be that of democratic political body while the other group felt that the expert advisory character of the Council should be maintained through appointments...
...many another city, wise theatergoers would have put that one down in salt and waited for the still greater new actress of week-after-next. But since London's theatrical critics are perhaps the least effusive group of professionals on earth, there was a distinct possibility that young Miss Herlie was probably not far short of the 18th Century's Mrs. Siddons...