Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Note that there are here two distinct questions, Crozier continued. "The adequate imitation of a given kind of end result as achieved by an organism does not at all imply that the mechanism whereby the organism acts or decides has been duplicated. For engineering purposes, as in the "no hands" operation of a production line, this may be quite immaterial (so long as men keep the surrogate in good working order). But the physiologists's job is different. What he seeks is not merely an overall model. He really looks for an understanding of the actual mechanisms whereby the organic...
...Each of the above nine groups," he tells the reader gently, "under modern scientific classification, are distinct major Phyla,-whereas we, and all our backboned brethren on the earth, from angelfish to apes, are all included in the single Phylum Vertebrata or Chordata...
...matter how closely affiliated in scholastic and extra-curricular matters Harvard and the Annex may be, they have two sharply distinct administrations...
...psychogenic rheumatic who has no visible changes in his joints is likely to be a psychologically distinct type of person. Psychiatrist Alfred O. Ludwig of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital gave the rheumatologists a composite character sketch: the psychogenic rheumatic is insecure, dependent on others but denies his dependence, has trouble adjusting to changes. He finds the world a hostile, dog-eat-dog place, reacts to it violently, but suppresses his emotions; he is sensitive, resents control, drives himself too hard. Said Dr. Ludwig: such patients "do not think in terms of live & let live, but rather of devour...
...casual look at the little that is known of the English team over here would seem to indicate that the British will derive a distinct advantage from the method of scoring that will be used...