Word: discernment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some manufacturers thought so much of their surprises they would not divulge them in advance. But previewing newsgatherers could discern several distinct trends...
Suddenly an explosion dulled the storm's roar. A halo of flame swelled through the raindrenched night. For an instant the watching peasants could discern the shine of the R-101'S length, could see her nose plunged into the wooded side of a low hill. There was a second, a third explosion, a titanic blaze...
...Michigan President Little put into effect many a controversial idea of his own in matters of athletics, student housing student vice pedagogy. Last week, any alumnus familiar with Michigan affairs could discern many a parallelism between events in President Little's administration and his observations in a book on the U. S. College...
...Justice Genevieve R. Cline, only woman member of the court, first woman appointee in the Federal judiciary. In a separate opinion she objected to the court's implication that a separate domicile was to be taken as an exception, not as an accepted rule: ''. . . I can discern no reason why they [wives] should not have equal rights as to the selection of a domicile. . . . The common law has been practically expunged...