Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain is aware that events might force her to make such a choice. The nation's press and the flow of dispatches to the U.S. in recent weeks have reflected a mood of moderate pessimism. The British Government-as distinct from the great body of the British people-is worried, and apparently has made some effort to let its chief allies know that it is worried...
...seven days earlier, their batting average tops the Yankees' by 23 points, their pitching staff has plenty of lefthanders, who are poison to Yankee batsmen. But winning World Series* is a Yankee tradition, they have better pitching reserves, and the first three games are in New York, a distinct psychological advantage. Last week, as the Yanks wearily ground out the pennant-cinching run, the odds sloughed downwards. By the time Spud Chandler hurls the opening ball, the betting should be even...
Human Impossibility. More basic than this personal controversy was the issue which CBS had apparently stumbled on unawares: although it is highly important that purveyors of news should not take sides, every intellectually honest newsman knows that impartiality (as distinct from nonpartisanship) is a human impossibility. If it could be achieved, far from being a feather in a newsman's cap, it would merely make him a man without principle and without perspective...
...eradicate the false idea that the interest of the employer and the interest of the employes are distinct. In the final analysis their interest is the same...
...distinct"--if I only...