Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first big case under the new Chandler Act (Chapter X of the Bankruptcy Act), and was therefore watched closely by lawyers as a test of the new law, which is designed to hasten reorganizations under the eye of SEC. Last week, the McKesson reorganization looked like a distinct legal success. The amended trustee's plan was submitted to the court on Jan. 27, agreed to by creditors, bondholders and stockholders alike, passed by SEC as "fair, equitable and feasible" last week, and approved by Judge Alfred C. Coxe this week...
...Society is designed to meet the problem of associating future creative scholars in a distinct body that will have an attraction for ambitious young men of talent. The Junior Fellows lunch together weekly and in addition they dine once a week with the Senior Fellows, Faculty members who are eminent in different fields
...proposal of paid-for sportscasting of Vern Struck's fake spinners. Its argument was the usual fear of "commercialization." But the sale of radio rights is not the type of "commercialization" to which there can be logical protest. Purchase of players is not wanted and is quite distinct from the sale of the entertainment they provide. The Corporation's old argument ignores the fact that football at Harvard is already a business-a big business which sells higher-priced seats than any theatre in town, rents expensive concessions to Stadium venders, publishes a magazine, and sells ads in it. Upon...
...under arms were not idle. No British Army even in World War I has ever been that big; none has ever had so much practice for such a bitter defensive job. One regional command let it be known last week that it had studied and practiced against 120 distinct invasion hypotheses. The British expect that the Germans may succeed in establishing a few beachheads. If they do, the defense counts on 1) the Navy to cut off water-borne supply, 2) the R. A. F. to resist airborne supply and reinforcements as well as attacks from three air armies totaling...
Smoked out, Colonel Bingham was unrepentant. "I stand by every word," he said. "Speaking as the perfect snob,* I contend that old army tradition-call it old-school-tie tradition if you like-has much to recommend it. . . . Every army must be run on autocratic, as distinct from democratic, principles." He did not recall that the officers of two of the world's most successful armies, Napoleon's and Hitler's, were almost all recruited from the working classes...