Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...running. Olympic ski-runners usually carry, in unlabeled tubes which they distinguish by smell. 50 kinds of ski-wax. The problem in a race is to use the right kind. Johan Grottumsbraaten, of Norway, champion in 1924, lost the lang lauf. Two Swedes-Sven Utterstrom, heretofore a long distance champion, and his teammate, Axel Vikstrom-came in first, with two Finns behind them. Arne Rustadstuen and Grottumsbraaten were fifth & sixth. Next day, Grottumsbraaten's two jumps of 161 & 163 ft. were in good enough form to give him the combined (ski-running, ski-jumping) championship...
Born the fourth son of Irish nobility, Arthur was sent to Eton, where he failed to distinguish himself even on the playing-fields. But he throve in the army, won his spurs in India, was promoted fast. In the Peninsular War he made his reputation, showed that French troops were not invincible. Gradually, methodically he drove Napoleon's armies back to France. A painstaking rather than a brilliant soldier, he worked his men almost as hard as he worked himself. To the daily questions: what time would the staff move and what was there to be for dinner...
...rents bring in distributed? These two questions concern the undergraduate most because they are close to him but there are many others to which he deserves an answer. The report, for instance, mentions nothing of the cost of all the building which was completed last year; it does not distinguish between administration expenses and the money spent for research, two widely different items. Moreover, a different set of figures was given last year, making comparison impossible...
Placidity and politeness distinguish most U. S. college newspapers. Mostly they serve merely as bulletins of local events, enlivened only by such glimpses of the outside world as the Harvard Crimson offered last week: a boxed, front-paged prediction that the Cardinals would beat the Athletics, signed by one "Hu Flung Huey." A crusading college paper is the Daily of the University of Michigan, which with the Daily of the University of Minnesota took first place at last year's convention of the National College Press Association. On the Ann Arbor campus, many a scandal has been openly aired...
...editorial makeup it would be difficult for the chance reader to distinguish between the new magazines, the Woolworth and the Kresge. All are printed in gravure. stories are illustrated with posed photographs, mostly of ravishing young females, ravishing young males...