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Word: discerning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even those who enjoy the picture of John Bull freezing within the Gothic confines of his Empire should be able to discern American responsibilities in the British crisis. As an expedient, President Truman's offer of coal should be transmitted again, this time coupled with promises of equal aid to the continent so that Mr. Clement Attlee will not be forced to decline the offer in face of greater need elsewhere. And if western Europe can be bound into an economic self-sufficiency only by efficient English production, the Welsh and Sussex mines must be brought out of the 19th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Socialist Lion | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

White & Black Threads. Last week, for Jerusalem's Moslems, it was Ramadan, the Mohammedan month of fasting: for which the Koran commands the Faithful: "Eat and drink until ye can discern a white thread from a black by the daylight, and then fast strictly till night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Promised Land | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...many reviewers have, that "The Lost Weekend" is a powerful tract against alcoholism is to miss the point of the picture completely. Rather is it the story of the moral degradation of a human being, in whose weakness and sensitiveness we can discern ourselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 2/15/1946 | See Source »

Newspapers called it the worst fog in 20 years. Officially, it was no record. The women clerks in the Air Ministry who test fogs by searching from the roof for 14 well-known landmarks (like Nelson's Column), reported that they could just discern "Object X," a building 30 yards away. Weather bugs, who call fogs by colors, dubbed this a "yellow"-worse than a "white" but not as bad as a "black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Big Fog | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...read the past correctly; not if I discern at all accurately the true dimensions of those problems of the future now only dimly visible but which He across our course in the years ahead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Civil Courage' Necessary For Peace, Asserts Conant | 9/28/1945 | See Source »

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