Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russian affair, with the Conservatives unprepared, and with the Liberals undecided which way to turn, shouldering MacDonald's own responsibility for the unpopular election. Almost by coincidence a new electoral register comes into force on October 15, giving the Labor party with its far superior clerical machinery a distinct advantage...
...weight averages of the two lines, which show Harvard to have an advantage of one pound per man, do not tell the whole tale. On paper the central portion of the Middlebury line shows a distinct weakness. The Crimson center and guards outweigh their opponents nine pounds a man. To counteract this advantage, Potter, McLaughlin, Brosowsky, Ehlert, Rigelman, and Mullen all faced Harvard last year...
...brow exudes such sympathetic melancholy; staid neutralizer, in its sober thoughtfulness, against that youthful, grand, and awful Widner; that sprawling, showy presence whose mere thought has oft inspired a nightmare in the midst of daydreams. What perturbers of the sprit these winged devils are! More rumors still, though less distinct, of other changes to be wrought, more parvenu intruders in the moss-grown ranks. They come, these leser rumors, to confirm the growing strife of mind that sets on to rebellion 'gainst the whole regime of change. For alas! the habits of three hundred years are not with ease...
...Hitherto the Division of Music has arranged its courses in two distinct categories", stated Professor Hill; "one to promote a better understanding of musical art among music-loving students, the other to prepare men of professional aims for their future work...
...etymological mantle of Theodore Roosevelt, which has long flapped vainly in the air, has at last descended on a successor, who will carry on the work of coining scorching phrases. There is a distinct reminiscence of "Byzantine logathete" and "malefactors of great wealth" in the most recent explosions of Charles G. Dawes. Mr. Dawes has lately been calling everyone who disagrees with him a "peewit plutogog". "Peewit" is merely a polite euphemism, but "plutogog" is evidently of sterner metal. It is obviously compounded of equal parts of "plutocrat" and "demagogue"--doubtless of the baser elements which these two words connote...