Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange names are seen on the University schedule. Vanderbilt, which plays here June 7, and Villa Nova, which invades Soldiers Field on May 27, are the only distinct newcomers on the list. A home-and-home series with William and Mary, and a journey to the Berkshires to oppose the William nine, are unusual features...
Evidence of that discord between college students and town authorities which comes to the fore periodically in such disturbances as the University Theatre riot last Friday night is found back in the days when the town of Cambridge was first gaining recognition as a distinct entity. Fifty-two years ago a writer for the Magenta in an article termed "Gown vs. Town" comes out strongly against the contaminating influence of the town then growing up around the University...
...royalty would be a distinct benefit. Newspaper men would be saved the effort of writing extravagant fiction about a colorless man. The colorless man would not have to expose himself to the twenty-seven diseases transmitted by the finger nails. Perhaps with his new found leisure he might relieve the "official spokesman" of his duties. He might even find time to study foreign affairs...
...cinema what a "smart-crack" is to theatre?an action or series of actions (instead of words) conceived and perfected as a distinct unit to be woven into sequence with other "gags," as close together as may be. Funnyman Lloyd, gag connoisseur, exhausted the combined efforts of three expert gagsters in making The Kid Brother...
...Their attempt to do so here has been successful. The fear that "What Price Glory" would be a repetition of all the war tragedies and comedies was groundless. True, it would be too much to say that the picture was original in all its details, but there was a distinct atmosphere about the film which made one set it apart...