Word: distinguishable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Linda's parents had taken her to more than a score of doctors and spent thousands of hard-earned dollars (her father works in a rubber factory) after they learned that her right eye could only distinguish between light & dark, and her left could make out only elephantine objects. In July of last year, Mrs. Brown read about Dr. Archie Edward Cruthirds of Phoenix, who had got good results in eye burns with Hydrosulphosol (TIME, Oct. 14, 1946). Two days later, Mrs. Brown and Linda were in Phoenix...
...columns must print only as many sides or facts of an issue as a reporter has found. Interpretation must be kept on the editorial page. But printing the news that way does not help most readers to arrive at the truth. "How many readers have enough personal knowledge to distinguish fact from fiction, ignorance from knowledge, interest from impartiality" without their paper's help...
...Nazi entry into Kharkov. Soon some German officers are gloating over rows of Russian secret-police files in which, as one SSman says with professional admiration, there is "for each and every individual a dossier." With cold brutality, the Nazis proceed to murder the Kharkov Communists, not bothering to distinguish between active satraps of Stalin and mere party hand-raisers. But in the bowels of the city, the Russian secret police rebuilds its organization; in the forests, guerrillas stir, and from the east comes the Russian counterattack. By the end of the story the Russians are back in Kharkov, exterminating...
...result is a picture of the specimen that is in full color, while to the ordinary microscope, human tissue is completely colorless. Amazing things have been seen with the new instrument. Cancerous cells, which have heretofore in many cases been impossible to distinguish from healthy tissue, have been seen on the screen as flaming red inflammations on the green background of normal tissue. These colors are produced by chemical reactions within the cells...
...making predictions, Dyer attempts to pick the essential characteristics in ability and interest which distinguish a student in one field from one in another, and also which distinguish the honors students in the field from the non-honors students...