Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, he took great pains to distinguish between the "temporary" and "permanent" phases of the plan, which was established by Faculty vote in the spring of 1948. Originally designed to merge advanced courses, it had to be extended during the war to include certain others, such as History 5 and Fine Arts 1, because of reduced enrollment, a small faculty, the three-term calendar, and other wartime considerations...
...combined both interests in a telling blast against U.S. military authorities who had just destroyed Japan's cyclotrons. They put the destruction in a class with the German burning of the Louvain Library in 1914 and 1940 as a "wanton and stupid . . . crime against mankind. . . . Men who cannot distinguish between the usefulness of a research machine and the military importance of a 16-in. gun have no place in positions of authority...
...Navy, among different branches inside the services. Like World War II's selectees, they will take aptitude tests, be assigned-within the limit of quotas-to training and jobs for which they are best fitted. They will probably wear some sort of cadet uniform, not yet designed, to distinguish them from regular soldiers & sailors...
There is very little to distinguish this show from the bright, glossy Technicolored musicals which Darryl Zanuck dishes out several times each year. Like all the others, The Dolly Sisters, which launches George Jessel as a Hollywood producer, has a plot concocted of time-tested staples: the kindly, absent-minded accent (S. K. Sakall); the handsome, threadbare song-plugger (John Payne); the rich, respectable fop (Reginald Gardiner); the old-time hit tune (I'm Always Chasing Rainbows); the lavish dance sequence (performed in blackface on a 75-foot banjo to the tune of Darktown Strutters' Ball). The only...
Pierrette's father, a Val d'Or clerk, has been fearful that his daughter's fame would spread too fast, that his family would incur the wrath of the Church.* The Church itself, sternly resolved to distinguish between truth and fraud, forbids recognition of any person's "miracles," no matter how well documented, as long as the person is alive. In Pierrette's case, the Church has been scrupulously uncommunicative...