Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot of Bed-Fellows. The switch is legally accomplished, but the play's title is, of course, never realized. Such things may happen but you cannot stage them. After much raucous effort at humor and suspense, Bed-Fellows ends where it began, without a single inventive fillip to distinguish it from a score of other mediocrities...
...McCall's competitors, five are outstanding in the mass-publication field. It is probably a fact that if the publishers should transpose their covers, few readers could distinguish one of the Women's Group from another. But there are differences of size, value and fine distinctions of policy. The big five: Ladies Home Journal (circulation, 2,538,412), Pictorial Review (2,523,384), Woman's Home Companion (2,274,657), Delineator (2,300,000), Good Housekeeping...
...serious consequence than "a nightmare of disillusionment." We have had an "orgy of idealism," an extravagant faith in "a perfectibility to be brought about by law." If as been as if we, too, had believed the word of the serpent that eating of this tree would enable us to distinguish between good and evil and in doing so "be as God." We have been driven from the Eden of our idealism, yet no angel with a flaming sword bars our return. At any rate, Dean Pound, a discerner of right and wrong of the malum in se and the malum...
...sold as foodstuff. In this country, to be sure, only well-to-do dogs eat horsemeat. On the Continent, poor people consume it. In French and Belgian villages are many equine butcher shops where only horse meat is sold. A stuffed horse head hangs over the doorway, to distinguish them from "chacuteries" (pork shops) where a pig's head holds the place of honor. Nor is horse meat particularly unpalatable. A little tough, perhaps, and not very tasty, yet between a relatively succulent morsel of horse and a comparatively gristly portion of cow there is not so marked...
...precipitation test is especially precious to distinguish tuberculosis meningitis from other forms of that brain disease...