Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came over and into my bed and leaned her ash-blonde head on my new framboise-colored $12.50 Saks Fifth Avenue pajamas, and then in the cadences of Leslie Howard, with her eyes on my lips, in three distinct shadings, soft, softer, and the last words in an almost inaudible whispered tone, she said, 'I love you, I love you, I will always love...
...into the English system of one year for everyone? What is the specific policy of the draft boards as to the status of science majors? Will the Navy call a halt to recruiting activities? All these questions and more must be answered before the picture becomes truly sharp and distinct...
According to tests made on the fluid, it will neither harm the strength or structure of the wood, while it prevents fungi, takes a coat of paint readily, and has many other distinct advantages over all other kinds which have been invented to date. In tests made with incendiary bombs, the wood remained intact while untreated wood was completely destroyed in a few minutes...
...well-known program of swing music, whose announcements are parodies of pompous program notes, was found to have definite schizophrenic tendencies. It had two distinct types of listener, each enjoying about half the program. One group listened in for swing, missed the point of the pseudoclassic commentary. The other group, vice versa...
...Naval Communications Corps, a unit distinct from all other branches of the Navy now maintaining courses of instruction at Harvard University, will move 800 students into the Yard and the Union at about the same time that the first segment of the Class of '46 enters in June...