Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carpathian wall is to halt the Russians, it will likewise divide the south ern German front into two distinct sectors, just as the Pripet Marshes divide it farther north. In this case the Germans will have two new fronts to defend...
...dined with dreamy, earnest Aubrey Williams, onetime chief of the National Youth Administration, now an organizer for the National Farmers Union. Williams, a frequent White House dinner guest, said he left "with the distinct impression that Mr. Roosevelt wouldn't run again, although he didn't say so directly." Added Mr. Williams: "He looked so tired and worn that I was shocked...
...Coppet's Flonzaley Quartet was, in a sense, the first strictly professional chamber music team, wholly concentrated on the intricate music that the greatest composers in history had written for just four strands of tone. Today quartet playing has become so distinct a profession that no one but a specialist with years of experience would think of competing for big-league honors. Few quartet players ever even attempt to excel as soloists, and very few of the world's top-rank soloists make good quartet players...
Olivia de Havilland possesses all the personal charm of a marshmallow which can also cook. She also has distinct limitations as a comedienne, not much helped when she has to sob about Sonny Tufts: "He's just like a great big long-eared dog." Cinemactor Tufts develops a rich comic realism. His conventional pinstripes and orgiastic ties, his scuffed luggage, his interviews with various Washington bureaucratic heavies are bright enough bits of authenticity to delight any director. Agnes Moorehead, under Dudley Nichols' direction, turns in a portrait of a Washington wolverine which is a blend of comic-strip...
Last week Cordell Hull may have harvested abroad the greatest triumph of his career (see p. 13), but in the corridors of his State Department there was a distinct scent of resignation, in every sense of the word. The family, neither little nor happy, was breaking up. Latest withdrawal from a team that isn't there: Dr. Herbert Feis, since 1931 the chief economic adviser in the Department...