Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...force-are closely modeled on it. Red Star's battle reports are the Soviet Union's most reliable and most colorful. Since all Russians get military training, all correspondents have military rank. Most of Red Star's are majors, who wear no insignia to distinguish them as newsmen. Red Star's star correspondent is greying Ilya Ehrenburg, 53, whose dispatches are frequently cabled to the U.S. Pravda and Izvestia also run his highly colored, hate-filled dispatches...
...this occasion to say how very much I have enjoyed being a subscriber of TIME for the last two years, and to thank you for reliable information, frequently brilliant writing, and often superior analysis of world events; in short, for all the features which distinguish your magazine from other and less gratifying manifestations of journalism...
...Plans and a Vacuum. Meanwhile, Britain and Canada already have firm air policies in print. Britain's was brief, Canada's detailed and carefully designed to distinguish Canada's special interest from the Empire's (see p. 24). But they both called for tight International Air Transport Authority to license all world air routes and carriers and, as Britain put it, "eliminate uneconomic competition...
From a "little ole red schoolhouse" through Baylor University at Waco to the University of Texas for a law course, Tom did well at his books. Otherwise he failed to distinguish himself much. He acquired a couple of nicknames: "Double-Barrel Shotgun" Connally, a tribute to his skinniness, and "Talking Tom," a tribute to his wagging tongue. His college days were briefly interrupted when he volunteered for the Spanish-American War; but his regiment saw no action. Settling down to law practice in Marlin (pop. then: 3,092) after the war, he found business none too brisk. Soon...
...Army does not distinguish between legitimacy and illegitimacy. Result: the three babies will share $70 in monthly family allowances. The British Army allows three children, legitimate or illegitimate, about $18 a month. Michael, Maureen and Madeline lose the King's bounty ?1 per head ($4.04) for multiple births of three or more. This bounty is not for by-blows...