Word: distinctness
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...novel is set in two distinct time periods, the mid-1930s and the late 1970s, and deals with the events of the Spanish Civil War, Leavitt said...
...analysis of middens is emerging as a distinct scientific specialty. Its handful of practitioners have already published a 472-page tome on the subject (Packrat Middens; University of Arizona) and have considered naming the ! specialty paleonidology, which roughly translated means "study of old nests...
Historically, nationalism -- as distinct from nationality or patriotism -- is a fairly recent development. For a thousand years after the fall of Rome, people's loyalties were to their church, their lords, their rights and duties under the feudal system, to their guilds, eventually to their King...
Eventually, in the early 1970s, the society split, and the club became a distinct entity and expanded its membership to include women...
Certainly it was a financial event. Lee, who had never spent more than $14 million on a film, demanded $40 million in order to portray four distinct periods in Malcolm's life and to go on location for such crucial sequences as his pilgrimage to Mecca. When the studio refused, Lee trimmed his budget to $33 million. Sorry, said the studio, but $20 million was as high as it was willing to go. Lee made up some of the difference by selling the foreign rights for $8.5 million, then went ahead with shooting based on his $33 million projection...