Word: distinguishable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ASDIC, designed for submarine hunting, sends ultrashort sound waves through the water and any sizable object reflects them. During the war, this fact frequently caused depth-bombing of whales, torpedoing of schools of pilchards. But as ASDIC and its operators improved, they learned to distinguish skillfully between echo-making objects, could even tell big from little fish...
Vishinsky's speech to French lawyers reported in TIME, May 27, recalls a critical dictum of St. Augustine which Americans might profitably keep in mind when evaluating our relationship with Soviets: "Distinguish between the trickery of words and the reality of things...
...present book is an autobiographical fragment in the same vein. The Blue Boy of the title is Giono himself. His father runs a little cobbler shop. His mother operates a small home laundry. Through neighbors he learns to distinguish Bach from Mozart, Scarlatti from Rameau. A strange, dark visitor to his father's shop gives him Hesiod, Homer and the Bible to read...
That settled it. For the sake of proctors' dignity, there had to be a way to distinguish G.I.s studying at Bull College, Cambridge, from mere G.I. sightseers. Soon the Bull boys were wearing a special patch on their lower right sleeves-a coat of arms featuring the Stars & Stripes, the Union Jack, the Cambridge Lions, the American Eagle and the Bull of Bull College. Master Sergeant Al Kohler, an inveterate doodler, hit on the design...
Asch calls his albums "basic music" to distinguish them from popular swing or the Gene Autry-Bob Wills (TIME, Feb. 11) kind of folk music. Said he: "Ours get down to the musical roots. Very often a basic song like Buffalo Gals ["Can't you come out tonight?"] becomes a hit, but I'm not interested in individual hits. To me a catalogue of folk expression is the most important thing...