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...investigators failed to find out how these sounds are made. But they did find it possible to distinguish mating cries from what appeared to be calls of warning or anger. Mosquitoes apparently never talk to themselves, but when two or more are gathered together, they usually break into eager chatter. A female's bellow invariably brings an answering chorus from all the males within hearing...
...camps, of the burning of women and children in that church in southern France where the whole population was massacred, of crimes which no man ought to commit, however strong the order given to him. . . . Some share of guilt [must go to] the whole German people. We cannot entirely distinguish [them] from the Nazis...
...grounds, warning them to hold their fire and not endanger the lives of the internees. Creeping along the buildings for what seemed an eternity, Mydans and I reached the main building where the windows were filled with excited faces. The internees were yelling so loudly we couldn't distinguish anything they were saying...
Many foreigners confuse Costa Rica with Puerto Rico. This does not bother the Costa Ricans so much as the more common failure to distinguish between their peaceful republic and the rest of Central America-which last week continued to tremble with political earthquake shocks. Costa Rica, they insist, is a very different cornucopia of good things...
...TIME'S phrase (which conformed to impartial Capitol opinion) was prompted 1) by Senator Gillette's voting record (straight down the isolationist line against Lend-Lease, revision of the Neutrality Act, etc.), and 2) by the need to distinguish him from such impassioned new-line Democrats as Claude Pepper and Joe Guffey. Never to be confused with such clamorous isolationists as Ham Fish, Iowa's well-liked, forthright Senator Gillette,"apparently not too old-line to change, was appointed to the Senate Committee which last year wrote the Connally Resolution on postwar world cooperation...