Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...humans?an Alaskan "sourdough"* called Waskey and Earl Rossman, a U. S. newspaper reporter?would be occupied with a slim skein of wires, a box and two silvery bulbs that occasionally glowed a chilly yellow against the trampled snow. In his head phones, Waskey could distinguish a thin piping note above the crackling static?a note that said another wireless operator back in Fairbanks had heard the preliminary signals of Waskey's small portable radio, was ready to receive and relay to the outer world news of the advance party of the aerial polar expedition financed by the Detroit Chamber...
...Pygmalion, Dr. Wilson is at great pains to have us distinguish between a symptom of disease and an effect or result of disease. He heralds the return of the general practitioner to study a sick man in the light of his whole environment, to assign to specialists their particular duties in the case...
...leaded gasoline should be colored, to distinguish it from plain gasoline and warn people not to use it for cleaning clothes, washing hands...
...indefinite statute, giving the Bible as a standard but failing to distinguish among the numerous versions of the Bible...
...readers of the Times understood. This "Bum" Rogers was a criminal who happened to make his escape from the train on which he was being taken to prison on the same day that General H. L. Rogers met his demise. Someone on the Times payroll merely failed to distinguish between two individuals. What was the difference? They were both named Rogers. . . . He put the General's "head" on the criminal's cleverness-wrote the history of a gunman's escape under the epitaph of a famous soldier...