Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although the two schools were thus separate and distinct in theory, they grew closer and closer in practice. Classes formally began at the women's college in 1879, and the institution received a formal name in 1882, when it became "The Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women." This was quickly replaced by the students' more informal term. "The Harvard Annex...
Somebody pressed the "up" button, but the elevator (ah, symbolism) headed down-straight from the lobby of Long Island's Garden City Hotel into the basement, where it landed with a distinct thump. Said Nelson Rockefeller: "Well, we can't go down any farther. We're at the bottom." Said Happy: "Oh well, then I won't worry about it." After five interminable minutes, the doors opened and Nelson, Happy and eight other passengers climbed out. "Hey," gawked a workman, "it's the Governor." "Hey, Governor!" shouted another, holding out a house phone, "say hello...
...corrugating the painting with Vs in relief, and painting each arm of the Vs separately, Agam can reveal two distinct acutely angled surfaces to viewers at the same time. Carefully coloring, choosing geometric forms and calculating the visual bias, Agam can produce picket-fence panoramas which can transit through 180° as the viewer walks by, from black to a myriad rainbow of abstract constructivist shapes to white...
Changes of Mood. General Motors' troubles and Wall Street's gyrations crystalized a distinct change of mood on the part of the American people. For 62 fat months, prosperity has fed itself because Americans have spent, lent, borrowed and invested with confidence. They have felt correctly that jobs, production, profits and paychecks would continue to go up and up. Now, uncertainty has replaced confidence with disconcerting suddenness, giving rise to a number of disturbing questions. Is the boom over? Is the long postwar bull market finished? Does the nation face recession, or inflation, or perhaps both...
...service department distinct from TIME'S Education section...