Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the fall of France, when they realized that it would not be long until Hitler began to bomb Britain, the British began to bomb Germany seriously. The first bombing (as distinct from pamphlet) raid on Berlin occurred Aug. 25. Of the 23 bombing raids on Berlin up to this week, nine have taken place since Oct. 1, when lengthening nights made it easy to make the 1,100-odd-mile round-trip flight in darkness. Then R. A. F. raids on Berlin left the "manifestation" stage, began to work up toward the deadly thoroughness that long ago forced evacuation...
Apparently he would see the student bodies of our colleges divided into large, cohesive blocks of opinion each dedicated to a distinct, cut-and-dried party line. Perhaps that would have been possible in his day. Today...
Just as the existence of separate economic classes has long been denied as an American phenomenon, so there are many who have been reluctant to recognize the emergence of distinct age-groups. But almost together, and for similar reasons, both economic-groups and age-groups have appeared, grown self-conscious, and solidified. With the disappearance of the Horatio Alger type of opportunity, and with the spreading recognition that a rigidifying economic system may have only a closed door for new workers (whether dungareed or white-collared), young men have more and more sought a common rather than an individual salvation...
...some sort. So the existence of intelligent beings, or even of any animal life, on Mars is still anybody's guess. If there are any Martian creatures, they must have adapted themselves to a very slow rate of oxygen intake. But all observers agree that there are distinct seasonal changes in some of the Martian markings. Certain dark areas are green in summer, grey or brown in winter. It is hard to conceive that these changes could be caused by anything but vegetation. And there, at last, is good evidence of life on another world...
...Business was on three distinct levels, German, Polish and Jewish, each establishment designating its race and nationality. Germans received priority in stores and hotels, right of way in streets...