Word: distinguishable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heard, and what he thinks about it, makes a bulky (544 pages), jumbled, fact-crammed book. * It is good reading and worth reading; it is a believable account of real viciousness, relieved by fragments of pure absurdity. Smart readers will make allowances for Investigator Carlson's enthusiasms, distinguish for themselves between stooges and stars...
...boiled attitude toward illness - last week wrote a prescription for one of the prime problems of wartime medicine, too few doctors with too many civilian patients. The prescription offered by Dr. Alvarez in the A.M. A. Journal: dispose of patients faster by abler diagnosis. Its two chief ingredients: 1) distinguish between the really sick and the chronic complainers; 2) use a few. shrewd questions, which often yield a better diagnosis than elaborate laboratory tests...
...small and black and white and looked lonely in a distinguish sort of way, as it wandered confusedly among the long tables in the Kirkland House dining hall...
...leave in Los Angeles, I had opportunity to investigate the zoot suit feud [TIME, June 21]. . . . I could find nothing to ""distinguish the behavior of our soldiers from the behavior of Nazi storm troop thugs that roved Berlin in mobs bent on beating up outnumbered non-Aryans...
...easy to distinguish those who had used our grenades. Their chests and stomachs were both gone. Our grenades, which probably accounted for half the Japs we killed on Attu, carry a much more powerful charge. The Jap grenade is vastly inferior. Some Jap bodies were found beside three or four duds, indicating that the victim had had an exasperating time killing himself...