Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Applegate the Mystic was the unfortunately successful champion of an extremely well planned out trick, but Kimball had nothing to do with the mechanics of the Smoker Committee election in which Appellate made his debut. Kimball has been serving on the Freshman Affairs Committee, a group distinct from that which ran the smoker committee election...
Peck's fleeting resemblance to Gary Cooper was undoubtedly helpful, at the start. Neither moviemakers nor moviegoers take quickly, as a rule, to a wholly unprecedented face. But it was soon clear also that Peck was no carbon copy, but a distinct and engaging new personality. He has a face which Mary Morris of PM has aptly described as "early American." It can, of course, be dangerous to look enough like Abraham Lincoln to suffer by comparison or to seem to be plagiarizing. At certain unfortunate moments Peck looks merely like a pretty Lincoln; but he never looks like...
...council's mild-mannered chairman, Edwin G. Nourse, former vice president of Brookings Institution, was less chary. The scarcity of coke, steel, pig iron and railway cars, he said, "is likely to prevent production from overshooting the mark. . . . Given a fair crop year, there's a distinct possibility that 1948 will see an abatement of the inflation...
Classical records are the order at music shops with Christmas music a distinct second choice. Practically nobody wants popular music as gifts, the consensus indicated...
Towards the end of his Freshman year, each undergraduate arms himself with a copy of the course catalogue and, with aid of an adviser, plane the remainder of his college career. Before him lies a vast range of 400 courses and thirty-one distinct fields of concentration. Into one of these a student must channel a large part of his academic efforts. After four years of study he will emerge a product of Harvard education, a product that is intended to leave college with the basic tools for success in a specialist society and also to retain a broad base...