Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chairman Work of the Republican National Committee went a telegram from Representative William Walton Griest, aged "dean" of Pennsylvania Congressmen: "If possible bottle up tight William Allen White and all other hot air artists that may be hovering around national headquarters. Please try your utmost. They are a distinct liability...
...origin, is astray, because "in a place like the Gobi it takes the ingenuity of the devil to survive." Obviously the statement is a rhetorical exaggeration by Dr. Cameron. The Gobi was once a lake, once a swamp. Dr. Cameron's idea is that man as a distinct anthropoid began in the withering Kalahari Desert of British Bechuanaland...
Last week, Gov. Strong was again in Europe. And his Manhattan supporters noted with alarm that Chicago was showing distinct signs of insubordination, was even pretending to take the lead in the intricate business of money-juggling. Boldly, the Chicago Reserve Bank recalled its warnings of last fall, pointed to diminishing credit reserves and wild speculation, jumped its rediscount rate to 5% (TIME, July 23). Manhattan, accustomed to lead, was forced to follow. Chicago's press openly flayed the absent Gov. Strong; screechingly demanded his resignation...
...Ansco Photoproducts, Inc. to form Agfa Ansco Corp.; neither did you give, in your article headed "Vanity Kodaks" on p. 45, June 4 issue, proper credit to Ansco for pioneering colored cameras three years ago, when Ansco, too, named this product "Vanity Ansco," available, then as now, in 5 distinct shades for milady's approval...
Last week the first of those enterprises both in time and size-the Tokyo Electric Light Co.-offered to sell $121,809,250 mortgage bonds. This is the largest corporate (as distinct from governmental) bond offering and the largest power & light company issue, either foreign or domestic, ever made. And yet investment bankers sought eagerly for allotments. To Japanese bankers went approximately $30,000,000 worth, to British...