Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point out certain disadvantages of the vacuum cleaner which we have determined by careful tests of such devices, but the Bissell sweeper has enough merits of its own to stand on without indulging in recriminations regarding the worth-while contemporary products. In other words, each device has its own distinct field of usefulness...
...Springfield, Mass., Rolls-Royce U. S. factory site. It has six brakes. 55 points for lubrication (all operated by single motion from the driver's seat.) and a silent, reciprocating engine of one-third more power than the present "Forty-Fifty" Rolls-Royce. These represent the first distinct changes in Rolls-Royce models in 15 years, said Chairman Henry J. Fuller...
...largest distinct group is that listed as occupying "prosecuting positions"; which includes 969 former Law School students, two of whom are Ministers of Justices in foreign lands. Although many of this number held high positions in the national law system, the great majority are corporation counsels...
...variations in light and shade, changed into electrical impulses, traveled to Manhattan over the wires. There the moving picture was reassembled. On a small screen (2 x 2½ in.) the speaker's face and movements appeared distinct and clear; on a large one they were distorted badly. Later the watchers in Manhattan saw vaudeville acts broadcast from the A. T. & T. Co. studio at Whippany, N. Y., 40 miles away...
...discussion of the memorial to honor Harvard's war dead two issues arise-the ideal and the practical. They are separate and distinct and should remain so. The CRIMSON is thoroughly in sympathy with the sincerity of the committee which has proposed this church, now definitely announced for erection in the Yard. Concerning the practical issue it has objections. Those objections--that a new church is unnecessary, for the dual reason that Appleton Chapel in performing its spiritual function has come to be an essential part of the Yard environment, and also that it is capable of housing those...