Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foremost collectors of glass paperweights, Mrs. Evangeline H. Bergstrom, 81, Neenah, Wis., author of Old Glass Paper weights (Crown, 1940: $7.50), gives some point ers on how to distinguish an ordinary weight from the real thing: 1) glass should not be too yellow, should not contain too many bubbles; 2) no scratches should show; 3) base should be smooth - only modern weights have rough, frost ed base...
From now on, the U.S. Weather Bureau will distinguish Atlantic hurricanes by girls' names, as the Air Force and Navy have been doing for years in the Pacific. The first big tropical blow each season will be called Alice. Then will come Barbara, Carol, Dolly, etc. The average number of hurricanes (seven) will run through the alphabetical list as far as Gail. Only an unprecedented number (the record was 21 in 1933) will include a hurricane named Wallis (after the Duchess of Windsor...
...sacrificing academic freedom will be no easy job for American education. It will require, on that part of every person involved in education--student, teacher, administrator, alumnus--the realization that they must fight for the privileges they could formerly take for granted. It will require the very ability to distinguish unorthodoxy from totalitarianism that the general public does not have...
...wings and commission in October 1941, and was shipped to Pearl Harbor. His skipper made him officer of the day for Sunday, Dec. 7, with the remark that "nothing happens here on Sunday." The something that happened that Sunday-the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor-allowed Ensign Bridgeman to distinguish himself in the only possible way that day by not getting wounded...
...gods rule the campus. But I wonder whether it doesn't skirt the attitude towards religion most common among college students simply that of apathy. I think most students have surrendered less to an ism critical of Faith than to a vague or abstract interest in religion hard to distinguish from disinterest...