Word: distinguishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the House Plan just completing its seventh year, it is only natural that each House should begin to exhibit certain characteristics, certain traditions, that serve to distinguish it from the other Houses. All of the traditions of Winthrop are based on the democratic spirit of the entire House, which has been a natural development due to the popularity of the House Master, Dr. Ronald M. Ferry, and the congenial staff of tutors headed by Dr. Halfdan Gregerben. Dr. Ferry knows each man in the House by name. It would be the idle coast of a partisan observer...
Almost equal in physical appointments, thoroughly cross-sectioned in every meaning of the term, and closely alike with regard to room prices, the seven units of the House Plan apparently offer little to the outsider who would distinguish one from another in desirability...
...Mullins next announced a new General Achievement Test, which will be given along with the aptitude test. The achievement test is so new that Secretary Mullins was not sure what it would be like, except that it would "furnish the participating universities with an instrument that will help them distinguish sharply between mediocre students and those of real promise...
Tide Rising (by George Brewer Jr.; Aldrich & Myers, producers) is a praiseworthy attempt to dramatize the political middle-of-the-road and to distinguish, in the blind storm of passionate prejudices which howl from the Right and Left, the path of truth and justice. In so doing, Playwright Brewer, who wrote Dark Victory for Tallulah Bankhead two seasons ago, occasionally loses his dramatic footing, but never his sense of criticism or fair play...
...some high-flown and unblushing so-called debutantes camplain because their dutiful Harvard escort does not distinguish himself, or rather her, by his mode of attire, let them turn to the regula-illustrious Puritan ancestors...