Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last two days the Vagabond has been looking into this carrillon question. He has discovered, among other things, that every good musical bell should have five distinct tones, all in harmony, and he has also found that the lower the tone of the bell, the more difficult to distinguish the different tones. Now the Vagabond makes no claim to being a carrilloneur, but he can hear a quantity of quite superfluous tones in the bass bell of Lowell House. And since there are five tones to each bell and there are nineteen bells, that would make ninety-five tones...
...favorite question on Shakespeare examinations is ''Distinguish between horror and terror." Sanctuary is compact of both. The horrors of any ghost story pale beside the ghastly realism of this chronicle...
...August (TIME, Sept. 22), told reporters who visited him following an operation by Dr. William Holland Wilmer at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore: "The most important thing I can tell you is that I will be able to see again! At present the picture is a smudge, but I can distinguish color and form...
Cinema. Also last week, 60 surgical pathologists assembled at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for a postgraduate course on Cancer. Professor Joseph Colt Bloodgood taught them how to distinguish cancer growths by showing them representative specimens from among his 45,000 microscopic slides. Only a few were allowed to see the first moving pictures taken of cancer cells growing under glass. Cell growers and picture-takers were Mr. & Mrs. George Otto Gey of Pittsburgh, working at Johns Hopkins' Garvan Cancer Research Laboratory, which the Chemical Foundation and Mr. & Mrs. Francis Patrick Garvan finance...
What happens when a moon instead of a sun illumines the scene, is, at any rate, what definitely does not happen during the daytime. In this respect it would take a greater than I to distinguish any underirable effects of "nude mixed bathing" not possessed by our own beach customs. As far as the desirable effects of the Soviet style are concerned, I think anyone who has tried it will readily concede them...