Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rear Admiral Sims, retired, might be called the Maximilian Harden of the United States Navy. He was once President of the Naval War College at Newport, a sort of post-graduate school (distinct from the Academy at Annapolis) for training officers in the theory of naval tactics. As quoted in an interview given the Boston Transcript, he excoriated the Navy Department for giving high commands to officers who are not graduates of the War College. Said the interview...
Coach Brown told the men before the start that the race would be over the Henley distinct unless the water was too rough, in which case the finish would come at the mile mark...
...University net men will have a distinct edge in its match with Brown this afternoon on the Divinity Courts at 4 o'clock. The match will consist of four singles and two doubles matches...
...even break with a distinct Crimson tinge was the best that the University could secure in Saturday's crew program on the Basin. The 150-pound race was an easy affair, going to the Crimson by a length and a half, but in the final event between Union Boat Club and University B, the Unions evened honors in a stirring finish spurt, the result being a dead heat...
...taken over in part by Darwin, who believed it to be one of the methods through which natural selection operates. Biologists then reacted from this doctrine until the opposite extreme was reached in August Weismann, whose theory that the germ-plasm of each generation is handed on and remains distinct from the body cells, logically excludes the transmission of acquired traits. Weismannism has held the field since 1890 and still dominates the thinking of most biologists...