Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other hand there exist at Harvard none of the special caps or paraphernalia which are used to distinguish Freshmen at some institutions of learning. Harvard as the Freshmen will soon find, is the very antithesis of the "collegiatism" and rah-rah which in the minds of Harvard men seem to be associated with the term "middle-western...
Gimnar's Daughter, one of her first novels, was published in 1909, when Sigrid Undset was 27. A brief, direct story, melodramatic as the folk tales on which it is modeled, it lacks both the involved psychological analyses that weight down her modern fiction, the realistic details that distinguish her historical romances. Since it is laid in the reign of King Olav, when Norway was undergoing the transition from paganism to Christianity, it also reveals Sigrid Undset's profound religious feeling, is an early expression of the devotion that was eventually to lead her to write thesis novels...
...African settings reproduced piece by piece. Artificial berries, leaves and flowers were made of paper, wax, cloth, celluloid. In the gorilla group there are 75,000 artificial leaves and berries, some 20,000 fragments of genuine African flora. Museum officials were confident last week that no visitor could distinguish the imitation from the real...
...which is engraved VALOR, below a blue ribbon dotted with 13 white stars. To prod privates, ineligible for other decorations, on to harder fighting, Congress during the second year of the Civil War passed an act providing for 2,000 medals "to such ... as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action and other soldierlike qualities during the present insurrection." The first medals were bestowed by Abraham Lincoln on four Yankee sergeants and two privates for their "gallantry" in capturing a Confederate railroad train at Big Shanty...
After the U. S. entered the World War, Congress added $2 per month to the pay of past and future Medal-of-Honor men so long as they remained in the Army, limited its award to him who "shall, in action involving actual conflict with an enemy, distinguish himself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty." Since under these conditions a Medal-of-Honor soldier generally has to act single-handed and without orders, the War Department makes a painstaking search of all available evidence before it picks...