Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looks thrifty, and was; its owner bought it for $50 and trucked it to the site. Inside, the illusion of having entered one of the man's pictures multiplies. The ceilings are low, the furniture old and spartan, the rooms small, white and uncluttered. A lot of distinct air surrounds each object. Through the front window, one sees a lawn with an 18th century cannon pointed at the indifferent horizon...
Cambridge's second distinct political feature is the strong City manager-weak City Council scheme. Nine councillors are elected at large by P.R. every two years. The Council elects one of the members as mayor and appoints a City manager. A separate School Committee is composed of six members elected by voters, though...
...cast of characters in Sybil Dorset's brain makes the heroine of Three Faces of Eve seem only mildly neurotic. As early as the age of three, Sybil began subdividing her personality, "dissociating" into other, utterly distinct characters. All had their own names, distinct vocabularies, accents and mannerisms. Vicky was gracious, self-assured, an attractive blonde. Mary was plump, quiet, with long brown hair, etc. Two of Sybil's other selves were boys who found it painfully confusing to have their residence in a woman's body...
WHILE THE Press is in better condition today than it was a year ago, there are still distinct problems that Rosenthal must deal with before the Press will be wholly sound. The foremost of these concerns the very nature of the list of titles that the Press publishes. According to Rosenthal, 120 of the Press's 2300 titles comprise 50 per cent of the Press's business. And of these 2300 over 1000 sell less than $500 annually. With this fact in mind, Rosenthal wants to improve the editorial "mix" of the books on the Press's list of publications...
...interviews in a large department in the faculty of arts and sciences said that she has noticed that professors are uncomfortable with the idea of having a male secretary. "One of the two men who interviewed with professors in my department came back and told me he had the distinct impression the professor would have preferred he hadn't come." She said that both men were well-qualified, but neither...