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Word: discerner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such a German government would then be ready to be a worthy member for full participation on equal and dignified terms in that "Council of Europe" which Mr. Winston Churchill seemed to discern as he "peered through the mists of the future" on the evening of Sunday March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fay-- | 4/9/1943 | See Source »

Such a German government would then be ready to be a worthy member for full participation on equal and dignified terms in that "Council of Europe" which Mr. Winston Churchill seemed to discern as he "peered through the mists of the future": on the evening of Sunday March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fay Condemns Rash Anti-German Hysteria | 4/2/1943 | See Source »

...Germans should have shown themselves ready to run the risk and pay the price required of them by their struggle to hold the Tunisian tip. While I have always hesitated to say anything which might afterwards look like overconfidence, I cannot resist the remark that one seems to discern in this policy the touch of a master hand, the same master hand that planned the attack on Stalingrad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: For Good or Ill | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

...properly be described as The Sound of an American. World-Telegram Reviewer Harry Hansen said that the book "pounds home that you can't write a decent novel when you are trying to outdo your competitors in vulgarity. The only sound of an American that I could discern . . . was the razzberry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rossetti & His Circle | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

Smith replied: "I admit what he charges, that Congress does not lead; I justify what he bemoans, that Congress only follows. It is indeed the primary business of Congress to discern and follow the popular will, when there is a popular will, and to do nothing where there isn't, save to talk around and about until there is a popular will." The audience cheered that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cheers & Groans | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

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