Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came as a distinct blow to Rolland. His plea for peace and universal understanding seemed a thing of the past. His life work, seemed undone. Without hesitation, and with a contempt for popular opinion, he continued to urge the people to listen to him. Though it meant that he must live in what was practically a voluntary exile in Switzerland he gladly chose to do this in order that he might remain true to his ideals. There he wrote his "Above the Battle" (1915) and corresponded win Hauptmann, caring nothing for ridiculous accusations of being Pro-German so long...
...University comprises, in all twenty-two separate and distinct departments. Chief among these are the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Engineering School, the Graduate School of Business Administration, the Schools of Architecture, the Law School, the Divinity School and the Medical and Dental Schools. Joining all these departments is the corporate body known as the President and Fellows of Harvard College...
...distinct division of the University, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is in turn divided into two parts, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the College. Dean L. B. R. Briggs '75 heads this division and controls all matters which deal with the policy of both departments...
...maid are without doubt worthy of more than passing attention. We find in their performance an understanding of character. Although in a small part, Miss Roberts brings clearly to the play a touch of quiet and dignified force. A more mature, intelligent actress whose voice is clear and distinct would be hard to find...
...career as a writer, know that up to the present time his work has consisted almost entirely of detective stories of a high order. Although interested primarily in criminology, he apparently has come to see that, from the point of view of fiction, such a field has very distinct limitations. For the first time he has applied his keen analytical powers to a story not intimately connected with crime, and he has produced a book which gives promise of future development...