Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the members of the class in Sever 5 were engaged, yesterday morning in reading from Chaucer, a pigeon forced entrance to the room, and by dint of a terrifically clamorous cooing from the dark recesses of the ceiling, forced them to the extremities of distinct articulation in order to be understood...
...life" and is anxious to tell you this. Her chief skill seems to be in making unsuccessful marriages, of which she contracts two. One with Bendix Grun-lich, a fraud with handsome yellow moustaches, a faculty for falling dramatically on his knees at just the correct moment, and a distinct taste for the Buddenbrook money. The second with Herr Permaneder, a really kind-hearted if totally impossible Municher...
...does give one a distinct thrill, however, to handle a book constructed in 1391 if one has any sentimental feelings at all about books. Perhaps Plato is too impersonal to arouse such a feeling; but certainly the stories which one has read become a most intimate part of one's nature. People enjoy stories chiefly because they can make themselves the heroes; one's imagination permits one to undergo every hardship, every triumph. The result is that no one can read 'The Toilers of the Sea" without reflecting some of the grandeur of soul of the hero...
...beginning of a considerable decline in interest rates. On this subject, authorities are as usual divided. But the effect of current money conditions on the securities market is at any rate noteworthy. The utility stocks and bonds, which are always first affected by easier money, here showed distinct strength. In fact the further question regarding inflation through excessive gold imports is again arising. A year ago in March, bankers were able to control an undoubted tendency toward credit inflation and a runaway stock market. Now, however, the task would be harder. We have more gold, less active business in many...
...selection by the War Department of the Harvard School of Business Administration to lay the foundations of its own Business School is a distinct triumph for the University, since it means that the novel methods of business instruction, inaugurated here, have received the approval of the United States Government...