Word: discerner
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...Colonel Robins," cried Comrade Litvinoff, "was the first to discern health and vitality in what other people believed to be a stillborn child...
...Light." Without mentioning Capitalism by name, Communist Litvinoff then turned his speech into a suave, polished, 100% Red enumeration of Capitalist failures and concluded with a dramatic understatement: "Against this gloomy background it is impossible, in my opinion, not to discern in all that is going on in my country a ray of light. ... I hope that ... I have not transgressed the limits permitted by my agreement with President Roosevelt regarding propaganda...
...present bull session, and there find subjects suited to the intelligence and grasp of the college student, and lurid enough to hold his wandering inner gaze. If these matters be important and serious, well and good; if not, still well and good, for no one will discern the difference or care...
Hitherto it has been the habit of producers to lead female spies to their natural, and well-merited end. And this reviewer must confess an inability to discern any ameliorating quality in Miss Bennett's performance. As a Russian spy, she is transparent; as a cabaret performer she sings horridly and dances awkwardly: as a lover she is meticulously unlovely, and earnestly mechanical. In short Miss Bennett has added another dud to her amazing collection. She is ably abetted in this process by a mundane story, by a stolid cast, and by a director with more memory than imagination...
...rising prices which paper money brought with it, not the paper money itself, that precipitated industrial collapse in the inflation-ridden countries of post-war Europe. It is not necessary to have studied economics to discern that if flat money is issued only as fast as the industrial machine can produce then prices do not rise; and that if prices do not rise, no harm is done...