Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge sent a cable: "His Majesty, George V, Buckingham Palace, London-I am greatly pleased to learn of the distinct improvement of Your Majesty's health and trust that your complete convalescence will now be but a matter of a short time.-Calvin Coolidge...
...mission of bringing light into whatever intellectual shadows of doubt can be admitted to exist in and about the Yard, the Vagabond is of too sensitive a nature to remain long indifferent to popular sentiment. For some days he has been noticing a distinct lessening of the bond of sympathy between himself and the rest of the college, and yesterday he realized that it had dissipated entirely when a comprehensive exposition of the relative merits of three rival ten o'clocks was interrupted by an entirely irrelevant query as to whether eight minutes was enough to get from Harvard Square...
Reports of an earthquake which appeared to be of destructive violence were received at the Harvard Seismograph Station yesterday. The quake occurred about 9500 miles from Cambridge and was located by Harvard seismologists as being in the vicinity of Java and the Malay Peninsula. Three distinct waves or tremors reached the University Station and by figuring the difference in time between their arrival on the Seismograph, the distance and general position of the quake was ascertained. No reports have received as yet from the stricken territory...
...also announced that a half hour of practice will be held at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. This is believed to be a distinct innovation for although the team has been forced to hold practice at such times as 8 o'clock in the morning, no record can be found where the squad went on the ice on Sunday. The purpose of this extra session is to put the starting and substitute combinations in the best possible form for the second game of the season with the University Club Sextet on Monday night...
...fact that the University sextet at no time attained brilliance in last night's scrimmage, the performance was slightly above the usual mediocrity of an opening game, and augurs well for a season as successful as that of last winter. Coordination was lacking in the attack, but a distinct promise for a strong passing attack, particularly in the first-string line, was manifest. The post which Coach Stubbs desired most to test, that of goal, still remains an uncertain quality due to the Engineers' weak defense. It will receive its first real trial in the game with the University Club...