Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge's activities fall into distinct categories, for each of which he must have a distinct frame of mind. His activities last week included the following...
...following letter was received by carrier pigeon at the Crimson office late night. Since the bird was very tipsy, and had a distinct order about him, the character of the writer of the epistic was held by the editors to be dubious at best, but since the Crimson never endorses sentiments appearing over a correspondent's signature, it was argued that ho harm could come to the children from the appearance of the letter in print...
When on Commencement mooring the Sheriff of Middlesex Country comes slowly forward in front of the platform, pounds his aword three times up on the boards, and says "The assembly will now come to order," a distinct odor of the past pervades the impromptu behind Sever. For the words spoken now for many years by Sheriff Fahburn were spoken on the came occasion by his predecessors for more then a hundred years before his day. The calling to order of the "assembly" of black-gowned students, their families, and the customary "puellae" is one of the oldest of Harvard traditions...
...anything to become definitely a fashion requires time and the scrutiny of not-a-few human beings. The items that follow are presented with the idea that they are news to a large majority of TIME-subscribers. And the TIME-subscriber who detects a genuine new "fashion" (as distinct from a "freak") and reports it to this department, will be rewarded with knowledge that he has performed a petty public service...
...sleep a good part of the morning, and then having breakfasted, read a newspaper. In these two exercises no difficulty will be found. Then in the afternoon we have a football game, for which as a matter of fact a clouded and obtuse mind is often a distinct advantage, though it avoids embarrassment to remember the final score, and in the evening there are always the gilded palaces of the silver screen where the spectator may be a vicarious hero just as in the Stadium, and with as little trouble...