Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...service. The coming first number with its articles on Sydney Lanter, Bret Harte, Edgar Allan Poe reveals the type of work to be expected. An awakening of national self-consciousness in American literature in a movement disconnected from the Sherwood Anderson-Sinclair Lewis school will be welcomed as a distinct addition. With such academic recognition for the history of native writing as a start, a further progression may commence strengthening the position of American literature in the college curriculum where today it is often neglected...
...Three distinct competitions, it has just been announced, will constitute the Fourth Annual Harvard Swimming Meets, which will be held on March 26 and 27 and April 3 at the Big Tree Pool. The blue book at the pool is now open for entries; the number already received indicates that far more interest is being displayed than last year...
Thus the Monsignor-Minister is a most interesting personage. His duties will cause him to move in three spheres, fortunately separate and distinct. In the sphere of the Pope temporal-that is to say on the streets of the Papal State, mingling with the temporal subjects of the Pope-he will move as a foreigner, a Jugoslav. In the sphere of the Pope spiritual he already has his being as a native. In the temporal sphere of King Alexander, he remains a loyal subject...
...points, Westinghouse 10?, Case Threshing 10½, International Harvester 6?, U. S. Steel 6¼. An average of 100 representative stocks declined 3.26 points. The Exchange closed Saturday, allegedly as the result of an influenza epidemic whose peak had long since passed. Stocks reopened on Monday comparatively strong, however, showing a distinct recovery from their first disorderly retreat. Having had time for reflection, traders had apparently decided that sticks and stones would break their bones, but words would hurt them never...
Federal Reserve Power. Speculators have long since realized that Federal Reserve authorities disapprove of their activities. The important question lies in what steps the Federal Reserve can take to translate disapproval into the actual cutting off of credit. Discussions of the power of the Federal Reserve Board (as distinct from its opinions) is obscured by the popular conception of an all-powerful group of government appointees sitting in Washington and turning credit on and off like firemen playing a hose...