Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...selection of the memorial be made on the mere basis of the expense involved "and the consequent case or difficulty to be anticipated in raising sufficient funds." The auditorium and activities space in a Memorial Center, the expansion of hygiene facilities, and the additional scholarships would each satisfy a distinct shortcoming in the University. Although the Memorial Center is of course the more desirable choice, the lone fact that serious controversy exists renders a referendum appropriate. This step would surely put the issue on a level beyond petty bickering and the sort of ill-feeling that debased the Memorial Church...
Aircraft designers had a wondrous week: ¶ In El Segundo, Calif., the Navy introduced its new Skyrocket, the first man-carrying plane (as distinct from guided missiles) powered by both jet and rocket energy. Built by Douglas, the Skyrocket is a swordfish-shaped, back-swept-winged sister ship of the Navy's Skystreak, present holder of the world's speed record (650.6 m.p.h.). Douglasmen hoped that it would make air history by breaking through the sonic wall-i.e., by flying faster than the speed of sound (about 765 m.p.h. at sea level). ¶ In St. Louis...
Replacing the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences as top dog, the Law School boasts a probable current attendance of 2,131 compared with 1,899 of six months ago. The estimated Arts and Sciences 1,900 enrollment is a distinct drop from the springtime peak...
...Eleven distinct proposals for honoring the University's World War II dead will confront the joint Associated Harvard Clubs-Alumni Association War Memorial Committee when its meets tomorrow in Eliot House, according to a statement yesterday by Henry L. Clark '11, secretary of the Committee...
...north-south battle which is expected to fill the 20,000-capacity Scott Field for the first time, the Crimson squad has two distinct advantages...