Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ragamuffin Chicago newsboy, paid $35 to have them whittled in wood by a woodcarving barkeep named Mack, and since then has made a tidy fortune speaking his nimble mind through Charlie's lips. Bergen himself is professionally shy, so that the fresh guy, Charlie, seems a distinct personality...
Frenchmen Herr Hitler likes, it was a distinct compliment to get a look at it. It took 3,000 workmen months to dig the road, bore the tunnel and shaft and build the Führer's mountain eyrie. The cost ran into millions of marks...
Election. Extraordinary in nearly every way was the election of Pius XII. He was the first Secretary of State to be elected since the office took its present form, more than a century ago; the first Cardinal of the Curia (as distinct from an Archbishop) in a century; the first Roman in two centuries; the first Pope to be elected on voting day, and the second to be elected in only three ballots. For this multiple breaking of precedent there were several reasons. Cardinal Camerlengo Pacelli had been known to hope that the conclave would be short, to show...
Unless these shiny-eyed young hopefuls undergo distinct changes of mind, most of them are destined to become what they would now call failures...
...Upperclassmen," wrote President Lowell eight years ago, "are doing work of a university grade, but it is too often distinct and separate from other things and other men." The should improve themselves by "contact with fellows interested not only in the same subject but in different ones. The should profit by deepening and broadening their associations." In the past few months a practical method of achieving this aim has been quietly developed in Lowell House, a method which deserves attention not only because of the ends in view but also because of the means themselves...