Word: discernible
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every deformity known to medicine. Some women want children so badly that they actually become bloated. The stigmata frequently reported seen on religious exaltes are hysteric in origin. If the hysteric's malingering continues long the simulated infirmity may cause actual disease. Only the wiliest of doctors can discern the hysteric's true state. And only the most patient can cure...
Prophetic U.S. citizens who peered futureward ten years, last week, could not discern a President who will dare publicly to drink their health...
...similar discovery has apparently been made by the History Department during the past year. Students, professors, and outsiders have long racked their brains in an effort to discern some significance in the numbers assigned to the various history courses. What the number 30 has to do with Modern European history or 14 with that of the French Revolution has remained as much of a mystery as why 3 should lead to a knowledge of the Roman Empire or 32 to the general history of the United States. But it has recently been discovered that numbers, in themselves meaningless, can carry...
...joke" department of the Journal. Its anecdotes, puns, poems, "miscellany, " all occasionally rabelaisian, disclose one of a doctor's interests whIch his patients rarely discern...
...connect history with the reality of life, and not merely with its flags and trappings, who have realized, to quote the Beards themselves, that "the heritage, politics, economics, culture and international filiations of any civilization are so closely woven by fate into one fabric that no human eye can discern the beginning of its warp or woof." For in these two volumes, on a scale never before attempted by any American scholar, the Beards have tried to gather and to express the formative influences, the circumstances and the results of all that has gone to make up American civilization...