Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general field of retail merchandising may be considered as divided into two distinct divisions, which I shall discuss separately, -- Department Store Merchandising, and Chain Store Merchandising...
Although scarlet fever has been recognized as a distinct disease since 1675 (by Thomas Sydenham), not until January, 1923, was a single case developed experimentally in man or lower animal. Then Dr. George Frederick Dick and his wife Dr. Gladys Henry Dick of Chicago took a hemolytic streptococcus (blood-dissolving bacilli) from a lesion in the finger of an infected nurse and injected the germs into a 25-year-old woman. She developed scarlet fever. The Dicks developed a scarlet fever antitoxin. Last week's Germans, Professors Heinrich Finkelstein and Fritz Meyer of Berlin, claimed to have found...
General interest this year (distinct from local interest in home-town teams) centres in efforts to crush the dominance of the New York Yankees (American League), undefeated in the last two World Series. At last opponents see a ray of hope. Small, shrewd Miller Huggins, the Yankee manager, has been forced to replace an important cog in his almost-perfect machine. The agile legs of Joe Dugan, third baseman, gave way. Huggins has moved Mark Koenig, shortstop, to that position...
...have been expected. Except for men planning to take graduate work and who are definitely settled upon some science or profession, only the vaguest sort of intentions are revealed. It is on this ground that the report urges the creation of the new office of Vocational Guidance to be distinct from both the Student Employment Bureau and the Alumni Appointments Office. But there is another possible interpretation of the vagueness shown by the Seniors in their replies. Rather than a need for advice, the figures more probably indicate that in the case of men whose abilities are so little specialized...
...Telephone Company activities are generally divided into three distinct divisions. It may be recalled that in the original article on the Employment Graph, mention was made of the different divisions in a manufacturing business. The Telephone Company shows similar definite divisions, which are known as Plant, Commercial, and Traffic...