Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sensationalism of cheap dailies and periodicals and anti-Asiatic films; those who have investigated conditions in Japan report the same situation there. Propaganda in one form or another is an incalculably powerful weapon; and when it fosters misunderstanding of the character, the aims, or the common sympathies of two distinct races, it is a highly insidious evil...
...stock company productions. One of the finishing details of the play was added by Leonora Bradley, who acted the part of Mrs. Semple, the motherly old nurse, with unusual ability. Florence Burroughs as Miss Pritchard, the kindhearted old maid who is instrumental in bringing happiness to Judy, was a distinct success. Master Abbott contributed one of the finest bits of comedy as Freddie Perkins, the mischievous youngster at the orphan home. Forced and unnatural acting on the part of other children and Mrs. Lippett, the matron of the home, marred the first...
...Endowment Fund drive. It would seem, however, that a drive for funds for the Business School would make a particular appeal to men not graduates of the college, who themselves, have a vital interest in the development of business efficiency. The training given in the Business School is of distinct value to the business men of the community in ensuring them a steady supply of men able to handle intelligently the industrial problems and situations. The initial prejudice against the theoretical Business School graduate has largely died out, and it is now realized that a knowledge of theory does...
...French literature, in an interview for the CRIMSON, "for two fundamental reasons. In the first place, most French peasants own their farms, and the private ownership of property is thus widely distributed. And since food prices are so high, the agricultural population, who are in the majority, receive a distinct financial benefit. The French peasant sees no advantage in the Bolshevist doctrines, and will be slow to adopt them...
...applicable in such a case) of the Farnsworth Room amounts almost to sacrilege. The possessions of this popular retreat are very valuable; the books are costly not only in binding but as integral parts of various sets; some of them are rare and difficult to replace. It is a distinct privilege for students to be allowed their handling at all, and that this permission should be abused is intolerable. Selfishness has indeed taken a far step when a sanctum like the Farnsworth Room is desecrated by manifest gaps in its rows of books. To close the room would...