Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moneyed Jews," TIME meant to distinguish Palestine Jews as a class from Palestine Arabs, who are definitely not moneyed. Nevertheless, many a wealthy Jew, who made his money and home elsewhere, has given generously to the Zionist movement, among them: Felix Warburg ($50,000-$100,000 a year); the late Nathan Strauss ($2,000,000); Maurice Levin ($50,000); Israel Sieff ($250,000); Simon Marks ($250,000); also the late Baron de Rothschild...
...there were any "superior" races. To Boas it seemed that if one person was innately superior to another, it was because there was more genetic difference between family lines than between racial types. Anatomists cannot tell the difference between the brains of a Swede and a Negro. They may distinguish the skulls, but it has been shown over & over that neither the size nor shape of the skull, within the range of normality, has anything to do with intelligence. Dr. Boas has no confidence in intelligence tests as measures of race superiority, because such tests cannot be divorced entirely from...
...blond, square-jawed Denver lawyer became a member of the Colorado Senate. Henry Wolcott Toll had been educated at Williams College, at Harvard and University of Denver Law Schools, and there was then nothing much to distinguish him from hundreds of other young lawyers elected to state legislatures. After two years in Colorado's Senate he was thoroughly disgusted at the ignorance in which state legislators were obliged to make laws -ignorance of the laws, investigations, researches, and legislative experiments of other states. In 1925, at his own expense, Henry Wolcott Toll sent letters to all 7,500 legislators...
...hauling the enemies of peace into the limelight in order to attack them, Professor Prall put his hand on the heart of the whole problem. The causes of war, especially among democratic nations which are supposed to work out their own destiny, are so ephemeral and hard to distinguish that historians years later are at odds as to exactly what started the conflagration. The mass of the electorate can judge of economic rivalries with little accuracy, and the patriot and potential profiteer look much alike. So far the Senate munitions investigations have made the best efforts to expose...
Renouncing the artistic novelties which distinguish the work of Man Ray and his followers, Dr. Porter none the less manages to achieve an individuality of spirit which makes his pictures striking examples of the creative possibilities of the camera. Largely through a fineness of subject selectivity, a skillful perceptive of light values and a delicate sensitivity to line, Dr. Porter has infused his pictures with an integrated completeness and a highly pleasing simplicity of form. They are in no sense to be classed as photographic tours de force, but command attention as highly skillful camera creations...