Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final answer, in my opinion, is that le jazz hot and classical music are, like Bennington and Vassar students, quite incomparable. They are in a sense parts of two separate and distinct worlds. They appeal to, or are expressions or, entirely different levels of emotion. They involve a clear dichotomy of human aesthetic response. People who have developed a sense sympathetic or responsive to classical music, and have heard little or no jazz, will argue that a swing classic is meaningless, superficial, or psycho-pathetic, depending usually on the degree to which it is hot. Such a comment...
There was a distinct drop in the death rate. Whereas 50 U. S. dailies folded in 1938, and 75 in 1939, the mortality of 1940 was only 39. Other facts...
...live. Last month one of TIME'S correspondents who crossed the U. S. S. R. returning to the U. S. wrote: "Moscow was very much as it used to be. I smelled that the moment our plane had wheeled into the spacious airport. . . . The whole country has a distinct, fetid odor of its own. . . . People looked better fed than a few years ago, better clad (especially with regard to overcoats and footwear), and they seem to be a little better housed too. There were fewer queues outside the food stores, shops and warehouses appeared better stocked than...
...valued: a thing is either true or not true. Non-Aristotelian logic (which Bertrand Russell rejects) is many-valued, fills the chasm between true and not true with probabilities. A four-valued logic would permit: true, probably true, possibly true, not true. (The word "and" then acquires 14.348,907 distinct meanings.*) Such logic is not speculative nonsense but a tool urgently needed, for example, by atom-studying physicists. It is also vital in comprehending the relativity-universe prescribed by the theory of emergent evolution...
...Congress passed a law providing for the patenting of almost "any distinct and new variety of plant." Since then 420 patents have been issued for a variety of plants including roses, nuts, tobacco, a special grass for golf greens...