Word: distinguishable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will it affirm or deny any political principle. Whether the conduct of the United States government will be measurably altered during the next four years should Governor Roosevelt be elected is in itself doubtful. There is nothing new in this although the present campaign has failed peculiarly to distinguish between the two leading parties. What is important and remains so unaffected by the consequences of today's election is that the working principles of government which are assumed by both democrats and republicans and to some extent by the socialists also are challenged as outworn and inadequate for the necessities...
...that knows its own fodder. Chicago's rats were scurrying out of their retreats by the thousands last week, slinking away to shudder and die in gutters and alleys. James Lorenz Nicholes, famed ratkiller, well knows the limitations of a rat's wisdom. A rat can distinguish between two kinds of food, may prefer one to the other or shun both. Put three kinds of victuals before a rat and it will confusedly gobble all. Applying this principle, Ratkiller Nicholes was busily ridding Chicago-temporarily, at least-of several million of its rats. Last week, his work done...
Contracts for releasing Silly Symphonies changed hands last March, from Columbia to United Artists. One reason Artist Disney decided to try using color was to distinguish United Artists' Symphonies from the old ones. Colored Symphonies cost about $6,000 extra each to produce. So far they have been so well received that Artist Disney will color the remaining eight of this year's 13 symphonies...
...American College of Surgeons- was the discovery, by Dr. R. J. Lundferd of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, that a dye called trypan blue, frequently-used to treat malaria and African sleeping sickness, would stain healthy body cells, would not stain cancer cells. Trypan blue enables the pathologist to distinguish finely between healthy and cancerous tissue...
Oxonian & Cantabrigian readers may be annoyed at his pretended assumption that he finds it impossible to distinguish between the two universities, is constantly getting them mixed up. A turn-of-the-century diplomat, Author Baring says he found the diplomatic service split from top to bottom over the question "as to whether papers should be kept folded, as had been the habit in the 18th Century, or flat." When the more modern school seemed to have won out, "a certain Ambassador of the Old School was appointed . . . and had them all refolded again? the work of several months...