Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. There are two distinct political situations which bear upon the charges and proposed investigation. In the Philippines the Collectivist Party, in control of the Legislature, has independence as a primary plank in its platform. Richard V. Oulahan, an able correspondent of The New York Times, has made an investigation of the situation in the Philippines, on the spot. His conclusion is that the Collectivist leaders use "independence" as a catchword, but really care only to oust General Wood and have him supplanted by someone who will allow them to run the Government in their own prodigal, inefficient...
During 1923 over 120,000,000 pounds of fresh fish have been landed at the port of Boston alone, and a distinct business revival is reported in the old fishing town of Gloucester...
...Edsall says that "the great moral to be drawn from this controversy is: keep distinct things apart. Do not confuse Science and Religion." Now this is just what isn't the moral of this controversy. In the beginning, science and religion were exactly the same thing--an attempt to understand that eternal, transcendent, inexplicable mystery, existence. As this attempt was carried on, it very naturally split up into two methods: some men considered the majesty of the unseen, and made appropriate conjectures as to what it might be; and some men tried to arrive at the same discovery...
...books were destroyed in the Spanish Inquisition. At that time it had functioned for more than 2000 years without losing a day. The dates left on Mayan monuments have puzzled students for many years, and their final solution along the lines laid down by the American school is a distinct triumph over European archaeologists, who have approached the question through their knowledge of the Aztecs. It is now possible to correlate every date in the Mayan calendar with the corresponding date in the Georgian calendar...
...hardly distribute praise or blame to the writers and artists one by one. Perhaps one of the best features of the Lampoon is that it is usually difficult to find the names of the contributors, though often one might wish to do so. The Christmas number is a distinct success...