Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trip was planned to accomplish several distinct purposes. In the first place the Deans realize that the large number of men from the West will be seeking employment in western concerns and feel that it is only fair that the School let the future employers know the aims and purposes of its work in order that they will neither expect too little or too much...
...Browne and Nichols hockey team defeated the University Seconds at the Charlesbank rinks Saturday afternoon, 4-3. Their victory came as a distinct surprise in view of a practice scrimmage earlier in the week, in which the Second team defeated the schoolboys with ease...
...obtained from freight traffic, the best paying freight is that hauled for long distances in long trains requiring no re-switching. But the profits on all railroads are dependent on what fuel costs them. So those railroads having coal beds on their own lines are manifestly at a distinct advantage over those who must obtain their coal from a distance. Freight profits are dependent in part also on running full trains in both directions and avoiding as far as possible the costly "strings of empties...
...drawing for the tickets should be distinct so that the reproduction of them will be clear. Designs should be done on white paper in black India ink, and should be four and one-half by seven and one-half inches in size. The designs must bear the following words respectively...
...that members of the faculty use the same old text year after year, whether it suits their purpose or not, for some changes would be decidedly welcome at any time: we merely suggest that they would be doing us a distinct favor if they would endeavor to avoid undue fickleness in their choice of books for class work. --Michigan Daily