Word: distinguishable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...along capitalistic lines, and this chance retires further and further into the background of possibility when deliberately job-eliminating measures such as the Wagner Bill, the N. R. A., and the Wealth Confiscation Bills are in force, also when the Chamber of Commerce, Monopoly, and High Powered Advertising distinguish our great sandy-geared system...
...That there be created among the graduate functionaries of the Universite, honorary titles intended to distinguish eminent functions and recompense services rendered to enlightenment...
...only Ethiopia's Emperor but also Italy's Dictator to grave misgivings. In a fresh public warning to Britons last week Benito Mussolini, although still in private negotiation with Sir Samuel Hoare through intermediaries, declared: "Italians will organize a most desperate resistance [against sanctions] and will distinguish between friend...
...unfortunate that the officers responsible for the enforcement of State and Federal statutes cannot distinguish between editorial oversight and pornographic writing. Anyone who read the current issue of the "Advocate" can scarcely fail to realize that there was no intention in any of the stories to present dirt for dirt's sake, and only had there been such an intention would the present controversy be justified...
When will the great American public learn to distinguish between the printed word as such and the spirit behind it? The failure to draw such a line was responsible for keeping "Ulysses" out of the country. It has been responsible for innumerable cases of Boston censorship. And it will be responsible time and again in the future so long as phrases are taken out of their context, deprived of their background, and thus berefit of all true significance...