Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...epithet "furore" shall stand. When curious persons turned to Latin dictionaries, last week, to see if "juror" could be stretched to mean "folly." they found as authorized synonyms "delusion," "frenzy," "madness," "rage" and "fury." Nobody's Latin except Architect Warren's could make "furor" mean "folly," as distinct from insanity...
That God is three distinct persons...
...four distinct branches...
...major course of study produce an entirely different result. The case of English, the most popular subject for the major study, and the most striking example of disorganization, is worth consideration. A Freshman course takes the student over a few high spots in literature which include entirely distinct and separate introductions to Shakespeare, Carlyle, Ruskin and a few others, studied without reference to their relative importance or period. The student may at his option, follow this by a slightly more coherent Sophomore course in which he begins the process over again, landing on a few other high spots missed...
...Myers, writing on the Republican Party, is perhaps more profound. He seeks more after causes and issues, and naturally enough sometimes is rather hard put to find them. He tries to generalize on the principles and characteristics of one party as distinct from the other, differences perhaps more apparent than real. The presidents, from Lincoln to Coolidge, he considers both as individuals and as party leaders...