Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech, and Mr. Kober knows its every leaf and stalk. Damon Runyon thinks that Kober has "the keenest ear for human speech of any writer since Ring Lardner." In one way Kober tops Lardner, for Lardner's baseball players talked pretty much alike, whereas there are distinct differences-some obvious, some subtle-in the talk of Bella and Max as against that of Ma and Pa Gross...
...reduced in favor of defense expenditures, heavy levies on the low income groups may be necessary. Keynes proposal relates to the substitution of compulsory loans for taxes as a means of imposing such levies. Under the stated conditions, his scheme has much merit indeed. However, his proposal is very distinct from the scheme which you advocate. If we shall find it necessary to impose heavy levies on the income groups of say, under $1500, the forced loan method will be a sound way of spreading the hurden. The financing of current bonus payments is an altogether different matter...
Alcoa's Davis and OPM's Edward Stettinius, on whose judgment this testimony reflected, did not testify last week. Other testimony: > A young OPM economist, Grenville R. Holden, testified that although he had no special knowledge of aluminum production, he passed on aluminum matters. He had a distinct preference for Alcoa, had a hard time explaining why an offer by Detroit's Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corp. to build new capacity was rejected. > Said the chief Alcoa witness, senior Vice President G. R. Gibbons: "No corporation in the U.S. has . . . done more [than Alcoa...
...more pleasant duties, Timilty revealed that "censorship is the one job I like very much." When he admitted that he found it necessary to ask Sally Rand "to put a little more on" recently, his audience showed signs of distinct disapproval. "You're hissing me only because I got there first,' was the Commissioner's retort...
...shows how each tangled acre of jungle can be dissected into hundreds of distinct "niches," which vary-from treetop to root, from tree to tree-in temperature, humidity, vegetation, sunlight. Every niche has its animals, every animal its niche. Thus, for example, "If you know the distribution of either the forest, the malaria, or the mosquito alone, you will be able to predict the range and incidence of the other two. In fact, this applies . . . to any animals, plants, diseases, and so forth...