Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Every citizen is obliged to pay five Afghan rupees and every State employee one month's salary, into an extraordinary fund (distinct from the budget) to be at the disposal of His Majesty for the purchase of necessary munitions...
...newspapers. The square jawed hero, for example, is a lightweight instead of the usual heavyweight. He is not a facsimile of Benny Leonard, Sammy Mandell or any other celebrity. He is simply Bobby Murray, a type instead of a borrowed headline. Actor Richard Taber makes the part into a distinct, albeit dull personality. Actor John Meehan does even better, much better, as Peter Murray, iron-grey manager-father...
...function of the portrait painter, as distinct from that of the painter, can be thus explained. It is his business not only to produce a work of art but to produce a likeness that satisfies the sitter or the sitter's advisors. Few portrait painters can achieve the two things simultaneously and those who can quickly become popular; their popularity grows larger like a snowball...
...Author. A lady at the glittering Japanese court of the 11th Century, Murasaki Shikibu was a shrewd observer of life in the capital. Up to her time fiction had taken the form of short fairy tales and allegories; her 4,000-page novel was a distinct innovation, the first attempt at realism. Some say she was called Murasaki after the heroine of her famous tale; others (among them Amy Lowell) say that the Mikado whose favorite she was wrote her a poem: "When the purple grass (Murasaki) is in full color one can scarcely perceive the other plants...
...when he married his present spouse, because she had been twice before a wife. But later a rich sister placed at Son Einstein's disposal for life an income of $20,000 per year. In the opinion of William Jennings Bryan the present Mrs. Einstein became a distinct adornment to the diplomatic personnel, and deserved all praise for remaining in Constantinople with her husband through the entire Turkish Revolution of 1908, at which time he was successively Second Secretary, First Secretary and Charge d'Affairs...