Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peaceful old Shubert Theatre. Producers Tickey, Hale and Robinson have reached into the pantry of theatrical food and loaded a groaning table with every edible known to the theatroniverous world. Net result: the most appetetive play-going gourmand alive could hardly leave without a satieted groan and a distinct craving for Alka-Seltzer. Reason: the recipe used was an inexcusably hacked script...
...powder metallurgy's products are often much cheaper than those of fusion metal particularly for small complicated shapes like gears. They look just like ordinary metal to the naked eye; they can ultimately be made equally strong. But they have distinct advantages, chiefly 1) light weight, 2) porosity which enables them to absorb large quantities of oil, giving them semi-permanent built-in lubrication...
...winter radio season may be described as the culmination of several incipient tendencies, but-on the other hand-as devoid of any distinct new trends. It was withal a period of ripening. Logically, perhaps, new blossoming could not be expected at such a time, and no new blossoming did come...
...Author. For the study of history Guglielmo Ferrero had a good training -he began as a criminologist. His first book, The Delinquent Woman, was written in collaboration with Father-in-law Cesare Lombroso, author of the theory that criminals are distinct biologic types with crime written all over their eyes, ears, chins and crania. This theory, now unfashionable, caused acute embarrassment to men with recessive chins and adhesive ear lobes, used to send Novelist Leo Tolstoy (then in his primitive Christian period) into literary tantrums. Historian Ferrero has set off a number of tantrums himself...
...first artists were the Cro-Magnon men, whose earliest culture-period is called the Aurignacian. The newfound cave at Montignac represents this glimmering dawn-culture on the vastest scale yet found. Its significance, says U.S. Prehistorian George Grant MacCurdy, is that the appearance of art "marks a distinct epoch in mental evolution." The Abbe Breuil calls the Montignac cave "the Sistine Chapel of Aurignacian...