Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That [U.S. midshipmen on summer cruise] were "downy-cheeked" and the younger brothers of wartime servicemen came as a distinct surprise ... to the men (numbering greater than 50%) who saw wartime service with one or more of the four services; to those who resigned themselves to shaving their "downy cheeks" seven or eight years ago and have for the last three or four years been grimly viewing a receding hairline...
Nothing Doing in Owosso. In his native Michigan, on the last lap of his trip, he had encountered a distinct coolness among Republican state leaders. To be sure, they came to visit him at Owosso, where he spent four days with his mother, Mrs. Annie Dewey (whom he calls "Mater"). With Arthur Vandenberg on their minds, Michigan Republicans were noncommittal about even a second-or third-ballot vote for Dewey. But Dewey was confident they would come...
...patients were really ill, thinks Pai, and were not just trying a fancy dodge. Cramped writers, he observed, fall into two distinct classes: 1) the tremulous type, whose writing is wavering, generally suffered from severe anxiety, 2) spastic (pinched) or ataxic (jerky) writers were suffering from hysterical neuroses...
Although Stillman Infirmary has treated no cases of heat suffocation during the heat wave, activity around the Yard slowed practically to a walk yesterday afternoon when the full force of Old Sol hit residents. Observers in Widener Library and the Boylston Reading Room reported a distinct falling off of intellectual activity during the normally busy evening session...
...young women bent by baggage and on self-improvement had registered by noon yesterday at Longfellow Hall in two distinct waves for a publishing and a secretarial course. By nightfall approximately 30 new telephone buzzers in Cabot Hall were tolling the knell of parting...