Word: distinctly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...live. Last month one of TIME'S correspondents who crossed the U. S. S. R. returning to the U. S. wrote: "Moscow was very much as it used to be. I smelled that the moment our plane had wheeled into the spacious airport. . . . The whole country has a distinct, fetid odor of its own. . . . People looked better fed than a few years ago, better clad (especially with regard to overcoats and footwear), and they seem to be a little better housed too. There were fewer queues outside the food stores, shops and warehouses appeared better stocked than...
...valued: a thing is either true or not true. Non-Aristotelian logic (which Bertrand Russell rejects) is many-valued, fills the chasm between true and not true with probabilities. A four-valued logic would permit: true, probably true, possibly true, not true. (The word "and" then acquires 14.348,907 distinct meanings.*) Such logic is not speculative nonsense but a tool urgently needed, for example, by atom-studying physicists. It is also vital in comprehending the relativity-universe prescribed by the theory of emergent evolution...
...Congress passed a law providing for the patenting of almost "any distinct and new variety of plant." Since then 420 patents have been issued for a variety of plants including roses, nuts, tobacco, a special grass for golf greens...
After the fall of France, when they realized that it would not be long until Hitler began to bomb Britain, the British began to bomb Germany seriously. The first bombing (as distinct from pamphlet) raid on Berlin occurred Aug. 25. Of the 23 bombing raids on Berlin up to this week, nine have taken place since Oct. 1, when lengthening nights made it easy to make the 1,100-odd-mile round-trip flight in darkness. Then R. A. F. raids on Berlin left the "manifestation" stage, began to work up toward the deadly thoroughness that long ago forced evacuation...
Apparently he would see the student bodies of our colleges divided into large, cohesive blocks of opinion each dedicated to a distinct, cut-and-dried party line. Perhaps that would have been possible in his day. Today...