Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people who during the night heroically smear window panes, who placard every German buying from a Jewish store as a traitor to the nation, who declare every Freemason a scoundrel and who, in the justified battle against political pastors and chaplains, are now no longer able to distinguish between religion and the misuse of the pulpit...
...purpose is to establish a strict political realism, to make sociology a pure science, comparable to astronomy or mathematics. Says the Italian professor: "We are in no sense intending ... to exalt logic and experience to a greater power and majesty than dogmas accepted by sentiment. Our aim is to distinguish, not to compare, and much less to pass judgment on the relative merits and virtues of those two sorts of thinking...
...great force to the student body. Furthermore, it would be hard for anyone at all to be a Lord Chesterfield on a salary or some twelve dollars a week. Yet that small extra effort, which soon becomes an unconscious habit, of politeness is one of the features that distinguish civilized urbanity from the frontier, and make a pleasure out of the process of living...
Probably the rarest item in the collection is a rough draft of "Tristram" which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1927. The poet's writing is so minute that a magnifying glass is necessary to distinguish the individual words. The earlier version has been considerably changed, and many stanzas have been completely deleted. The final draft is on view and hardly a change has been made in this. It would almost appear that Robinson wrote complete verses without alteration. This final draft is dated June 2, 1925, and has been loaned to the Library by Jules LeDoux, his New York...
...special research on noses. Undoubtedly many treasures are in store for him. To date his study reveals that not only is the nose a very determining factor in forming the character of the face, but that certain suffers are so sensitive in their make-up that they can distinguish races, families, even houses by scent alone. This might be assumed by the ability of boodhounds to trace out individuals; but Dr. Laird hastens to drive home the point that a keen sense of smell is not confined to the lower animals. Many a good women who tells the history...