Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard men have borne up bravely under the news of various faculty losses this year, but the news that Mike, the famous Mike of the tattered Crimson flag and Crimson sweater, is to take a sabbatical year in Ireland came last night as a distinct shock...
...handicaps to which I allude is the falling off of immigrant remittances to Italy from her sons working on foreign soil. In the past, these remittances constituted a distinct factor in your invisible international balance. May I suggest that you try to offset the loss from this item by increasing legitimate income from American tourists, who should be encouraged on a broader and more practicable scale than ever before to come to Italy and prolong their visits here...
...mumblings from South America became distinct, last week, when a Peruvian memorial on the Tacna-Arica dispute between Chile and Peru (TiME, Mar. 16 et seq.) was received by the U. S. State Department and forwarded to President Coolidge. Peru, long incensed by the treatment of her citizens in Tacna and Arica, suggested threefold amendments of the terms of the U. S. President's arbitral award as follows...
...larger intellectual interest among undergraduates and a distinct advance in the development of more active minds is suggested as the important result of the recent educational changes in the University by Professor Clifford H. Moore...
...capable interpretation by the actor the play loses its effect, and, thereby, whatever justification it had for its existence. And capable interpretation, just like playwriting, is partly a matter of genius, and partly a matter of training. The numerous schools of acting now existent in New York are a distinct admission of this fact by a supercilious Broadway which has scoffed at college courses in playwriting...