Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looks as if TIME and the doughty admirals are more familiar with nautical than with personal armor. The print shows full suits of plate armor, unknown in England for more than 100 years after 1260, at least in the form shown. Besides which, the armor bears a distinct family resemblance to the type beloved of Victorian engravers, and seen nowhere on earth but in their limnings. Ten gets you a hundred that the print was engraved between 1800 and 1850. The type of the engraving's title also points to that period, to say nothing of the spelling...
Fantastic though the statement may sound, I believe I have served with two distinct U.S. Navies. Between the Navy which fought in the Aleutians in 1943 and the Navy of 1944, any similarity is purely coincidental...
...from the bombed plants billowed up to 6,000 feet, smoke to 26,000. But the B-29s were above these, above the ack-ack, and above the effective fighting ceiling of Jap Zeroes. The first high-level operation of the kind for which B-29s were designed (as distinct from medium-altitude night bombing such as the two previous attacks on Yawata and Sasebo) was a success. Only two planes were lost. Total for three raids...
...Mises, the world started to go to the dogs in the middle of the 19th Century, with the failure in Germany of the liberal revolution of 1848. Still living in the mental climate of feudalism, the Prussian landlords who crushed the revolution could not conceive of an economic society distinct from a political organization. The Prussian attempt to merge economics and politics, to use the power of the state to enhance the competitive power of the German economic machine, naturally provoked fear in Eng land, in France and in the U.S. And each attempt to shelter a group, an industry...
...invented "repeating or everlasting match" - a pencil-size gadget that ignites on scratching, can be blown out and relit up to 140 times in a row - was suppressed. Diamond was glad to help keep it off the market because, as Justice quotes from Diamond files, it: 1) was "a distinct danger to the American match industry"; 2) "would be a fertile field for the rottenest kind of competition...