Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first-hand knowledge, to serve a university, it is its alumni, whose ideals have been shaped by it, and who have had personal experience of its needs. But it is true that these ideals are apt to be somewhat dimmed, and the memories of those experiences less distinct, after a few years away from college...
Such would, be the doctor's report on Mexico after the two years of the Obreton treatment. Internal disorders have been checked, leaving the patient sane, if weak. The economic condition is stagnant, but there are distinct signs of improvement, given proper nourishment. Outside complications of an international nature have remained in statu quo. Indications, on the whole, point to a gradual but complete recovery...
...unbiased opinion of the conditions there, but the Russian government refused him permission to enter the country. "Although Russia is still experimenting," he concluded, "I think she has a stable government. The Russians are the only people in the world at the present time with a distinct goal and true sincerity of purpose...
Whether France's seizure of the Ruhr was wise or not, it would hardly seem fair not to give her free rein in the course she has decided upon. Bonar Law left behind him in Paris, after the collapse of the conference of premiers, the distinct understanding that England should not assume any responsibility for what might follow and that France would be left to shift for herself. It was on this understanding that France and Belgium proceeded...
...other calamity befalls, the cheese is spoiled. Here it is that Science shows herself truly worthy. The formidable X ray, already victor in a thousand fields, provides the quaking cheese bayous with the solution. A photograph was taken and eureka, "the holes developed on the negative as distinct dark spots". What could be more magnificent...