Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the average white American soldier surveys his army, he sees it not as one unit, but as two distinct organizations: an American army and a Negro army. This sordid scene has been painted by the War Department, thinking it a graphic solution to racial problems in the Army. But the need for a mixed regiment is merely one aspect of this shallow picture the War Department has produced. There are others...
Scotland's school system is independent of the combined English and Welsh system. As in the U.S., secondary education in Scotland is completely free, and it is not distinct from the elementary but develops from it. Like the Welsh, the Scots are hungrier than the English for learning: one Scotsman in 473 goes to a university, one Englishman...
...Federal income tax man, carrying out the order of Congress, comes around to members of the armed forces just as he does to all other Americans. But when he pays his 1943 visit, to see about collecting taxes on 1942 earnings, fighting men and women will find that several distinct income-tax advantages have been conferred upon them...
Japan pursues two distinct policies in the two zones. Capital investment, colonization, education and a centrifugal imperialism are evident in the inner zone. Emigration to the outer zone is discouraged, perhaps even forbidden; those who go there are sent on specific missions. No capital is invested in the outer zone. The cream is simply skimmed by persuasion or force. Throughout the outer zone an inextricable web of legal ownership is being developed, while on the surface autonomy is apparently maintained-as with the Vargas regime in the Philippines, the Luang Pitul Songgram government in Thailand, the surviving Decoux governorship...
...Ellington's concert last Thursday night was a distinct success. The band was rather nervous, the audience applauded the soloists too often, the ushers kept seating people during numbers, and the feature selection, "Black, Brown, and Beige," was as episodic and spotty as reported. Yet, confronted with over two solid (in more than one respect) hours of Ellingtonia, I can only report that Duke lived up to and confirmed all but the very highest expectations. If "B B and B" did not successfully bring jazz to the concert stage, it did not deny the existence of Ellington's genius...