Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody ever reads a science textbook for fun. But scientists, as distinct from textbook writers, have sometimes been highly readable writers. Proof of it is available this week in a new collection of the history-making but seldom-read writings of 100 of the world's greatest scientists. It is The Autobiography of Science (Doubleday, Doran; $4), edited by Forest Ray Moulton, secretary of the American Association for the Advance ment of Science, and Justus J. Schifferes. By & large, this anthology bears out its editors' assertion that "good science makes good reading." Three cases in point...
World War II (European division) is already more distinct than it was while it was going on. It fell into three stages, each distinguished by the sensations in men's viscera...
...great quantities of salt are required to digest "Enchanted Cottage's" elfin consomme, for it is subtly spiced with acting that is something distinct from the sleep-walking with which most productions are content...
Harry Truman is a man of distinct limitations, especially in experience in high-level politics. He knows his limitations. He is frank with himself and his friends in visualizing himself as the ordinary, honest politician grown to stature through patience, hard work and luck. He believes in strict party responsibility, a politician's reward for work done, and complete loyalty to friends. (He never forsook Tom Pendergast, even after Boss Tom had gone to Leavenworth.) He is no theorist. In his Administration there are likely to be few innovations and little experimentation...
...plans called for two distinct but related phases: immediate rule by military government, interim rule by the Allied Control Commission...