Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dealing with books of contemporary history, it is always necessary to distinguish carefully between the purely historical element and the point of view and purpose (if any) of the writer. Particularly is this necessary in any appraisal of a book such as Professor Ross's "The Russian Soviet Republic," in which the historical and the personal are closely mingled. In spite of the considerable body of historical narrative and analysis therein detailed, the purpose and character of this book are sufficiently indicated by the dedication "To my Fellow American who have become weary of being fed lies and propaganda about...
...greatly stimulated speculative interest throughout the South. The result has been that unscrupulous individuals in Manhattan have organized "odd-lot" cotton exchanges in order to bucket the orders of small customers. Many of the latter live at considerable distances from New York City, and are through inexperience unable to distinguish between the primary cotton market on the New York Cotton Exchange, and the mushroom imitations of it which crooks are so frequently ready to establish during a cotton boom. Officers of both the New York and New Orleans cotton exchanges are cooperating with the authorities to close up these cotton...
...wise observer who is competent to judge a movement among undergraduates. They are not always what they seem. Their faculty of burlesque and fun-making being what it is, they sometimes appear to attack themselves to freakish agitation or to reforms that are hard to distinguish from fads, merely out of the pure joy of mystifying their elders. Hence reports that students at Harvard or Princeton or elsewhere are caught indulging in the rites of the Klan, or in improvised imitations of them, may not mean more than that a few hilarious spirits are having their thing at a passing...
...case comes up. In the Weinstock case, the defendant resorted to the erection of a duplicate building alongside the mercantile house of a successful trader. It was built so similarly as to deceive the public. Injunctive relief was granted to the plaintiff and the court commanded the defendant to distinguish his building from that in which the plaintiff was carrying on his business, so as to sufficiently indicate to the public that it was separate...
...those of us who are in the habit of attending the theatre of today, and of witnessing, perforce, some of the horrible mixtures of farce and comedy served up to us by authors, who, apparently, distinguish not at all between the two moods, a play such as "You and I" must come as a welcome relief. For here Mr. Barry has given to us not a comedy which ever and anon lapses into farce, but a true comedy of character. With the sure touch of the artist, and with rare humour, the author has revealed to us a portion...