Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...benefit derived from work in the Photographic department is primarily a practical knowledge of the taking, developing, and enlarging of pictures. But the attraction which grips the neophyte who cannot distinguish between a lens and shutter when he reports, and his type constitutes the majority of candidates, is more deep-seated than a mere liking for the art of photography itself. Through his contacts and appointments with outsiders, he becomes aware of phases of the life of the University that were unknown before. He meets visitors of world-prominence; and seeks with equal eagerness the photographs of European exchange professors...
...last another oasis has appeared in a prolonged desert. Mr. Hoover has taken up the task so admirably started by Colonel Lindbergh in offering gratuitous lessons in geography. The daily papers are continually recording the names of hitherto unknown, or long forgotten, cities and villages, which now distinguish themselves as hospitable hosts to a celebrated American. For those who have seen the map of South America through a glass darkly, these illuminating reports are becoming mines of information--the historical student can now locate the home of Bolivar, and the engineer the railroad passes across the Andes...
...Manhattan, hangs a portrait of J. Insley Blair, founder. Revered is the memory of Mr. Blair, but stocks and bonds no longer interest him. The inheritor of his power, though not of his title, is Elisha Walker, senior partner of Blair & Co.* There is little about Partner Walker to distinguish him, outwardly, from other Blair & Co. partners such as Polo Player J. Cheever Cowdin. He has dark hair. He is of medium size. He is decidedly middle aged. He likes to play poker. He is impatient of obstructionism. It is on Mr. Walker, however, that the destinies of Blair...
...practice. The scientific explanation of music will be made available when Professor Spaulding gives the first of a series of lectures on "Sound and its Relation to Music" at 4 o'clock in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room 1, on the subject of "Vibrations". Having mastered the factors that distinguish symphony concerts from the more subtle music of the sounds emitted by, say, the Harvard Square traffic, the musically inclined can obtain a practical exposition of the art by attending the first of the Whiting concerts, to be given at 8.15 o'clock in Paine Concert Hall of the Music...
...think it's a weakness of category. You see, some Careful Greeters don't distinguish between the Cut and the Stare. I do. It may be splitting hairs, but I think there is a place for the Cut, the simple Stare, the Stare with modified eye-roll, and the Stare with lip movement. So that while I have sought variety, others have been content to remain in the simpler paradigms of greeting, and still use the common, or old-fashioned Stare on all occasions...