Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Buffalo, New York, helped Angora, Turkey, last week in spreading the new gospel of a 31-letter Latinized alphabet which dynamic President Mustafa Kemal Pasha has made obligatory throughout the Turkish Republic (TIME, Sept. 17). The trouble has been to keep the new, distinct, simple characters from being corrupted by the addition of old-style Turkish flourishes. Many a young Turk, once he has mastered the new letters at a Government school, goes home to his village and soon develops a "dialect alphabet" which only his closest intimates can read. How to wipe out this maddening balk of progress? Obviously...
...Company, Colonel the Right Honorable John Gret-ton. Conservative M. P. for the Burton Division of Staffordshire. Waving proudly over the old brewery was a great banner lettered GOOD HEALTH TO OUR PRINCE. Edward of Wales attended a special luncheon after which he sampled with relish five separate and distinct brews, including a famed ale made by his gastronomically expert grandfather, Edward VII. Slightly flushed, Edward of Wales went with the directors later to the brew house, peered cautiously into a great copper vat half filled with a fermenting mass of brown syrupy malt, yellow flaky hops...
...West Coast of the Pacific in China and Japan the native food is rice, a grain. On the East side the American aborigines used maize or Indian corn, also a grain, whereas we find the Pacific Islanders .using Taro, a root, which seems indicative of an entirely distinct racial origin. The youngest son, James Wilder, while at Harvard, introduced the Ukulele, and Hawaiian Music. He is a noted artist, and is known to every Boy Scout of America as Pathfinder Jim, Chief Sea Scout, the man who organized the Sea Scouts of America. C. S. STANWORTH
Stone & Webster got into utility operating (as distinct from plant construction) indirectly through the panic of 1893. During this panic there was a general collapse in the stocks of public utility companies. Holders of utility stocks were approached by astute J. P. Morgan, who bought the apparently sinking ships for about one-third of their original values...
...soon after to American Bosch Magneto Corp. which had incorporated for the purpose of buying Kern's Bosch stock. In 1921 Inventor Bosch initiated a new attack on U. S. markets and incorporated the Robert Bosch Magneto Co. to sell German-made Bosch products. Hence there were two distinct magneto companies selling the same magnetoes in the same market. American Bosch Corp. sued Robert Bosch Co.. claiming as its most valued asset, exclusive right to the Bosch name in the U. S. Inventor Bosch contended that his name did not become the property of American Bosch Corp...