Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...exact centre of the paper,--the issue is very creditable. It reflects University life in its clever photographs, and echoes the present universal stir for real preparedness in a way which should fully satisfy the most broad-minded among us. All in all, it is a distinct step forward. N. C. STARR...
...drawings should be distinct in order that the reproduction may be clear. Designs should be done in black India ink on white paper and should be four and one-half inches by seven and one-half inches in size. Every design must bear the following words...
...private pride must yield to higher national ends, so must national pride. I utterly reject as mumbo-jumbo any conception of American honor as a mysterious something distinct from the aggregate honor of American citizens. National traditions, ideals and honor live in the minds of people and nowhere else. Now, as members of the American partnership, we feel sorely humiliated by the Germans. Somehow we feel less moved by the greater indignities practiced by American partners on each other. It is so much easier to hate the foreigner. But if we are to steer with open eyes toward the goal...
...modification of Oxford's educational terminology is a distinct concession to American prejudice, which makes the title of Doctor the end and consummation of a man's learning. It is a little thing, the matter of a word. Yet Napoleon upturned the world because he wanted to be named Emperor rather than Consul. And many Americans of distinct scholarly ability have gone through other and less congenial training because the sound of a Philosophical Doctor was sweeter to their ears than a mere Literary Bachelor...
...caste two distinct kinds of acting are noticeable. Paul Clerget as Pierrot's Father and Louis Gouget as Monsieur Le Baron reflect the traditional French ideas of pantomime. Nationality has its effect in this as in all other things, for no one could play these parts as they are played--with the possible exception of another Frenchman. M. Clerget is a really powerful person on the stage, and his abilities are not limited to a single field; he is light, amusing, and whimsical or serious, as the case may require, and in both moods equally fine. In contrast to these...