Word: distinguisher
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Even the Chicago Tribune deserted McCarthy in the Stevens fight, saying: "Senator McCarthy will better serve his cause if he learns to distinguish the role of investigator from the role of avenging angel . . . There was ... no reason to doubt the general's good faith. There is nothing ... to suggest that he was a party to a conspiracy to protect Communists . . . Senator McCarthy's behavior toward General Zwicker . . . has injured his cause of driving the disloyal from the Government service." The Tribune, no doubt, will return to the McCarthy corner, but its editorial was a sharp warning that...
There was also, of course, an opinion from Oxford. "The real problem in the terminology of fissility or fissileness," wrote one learned fellow, "is to distinguish between materials with natural or artificial nuclear splits. Possibly the former might be called 'fissive...
...into new, hyper-liberal Federal agencies. Communism was not considered a menace per so in those days of a discouragingly sickly economy. It was quite fashionable in some circles to speak in shocking left-wing slogans. Dedicated New Dealers, earnest Fabians, and mildly argumentative Communists were often hard to distinguish...
...associate director, Leon A. Greenberg, invented the Alcometer, a portable automatic laboratory which determines the amount of alcohol a person has consumed. The police can now easily distinguish between the man who should be prosecuted for drunkenness and the man who appears to be inebriated but is actually suffering from sober shock and should be rushed to the hospital...
Bypassing the sensational, Harvard's Psychological Clinic houses neither white rats nor pink elephants. Only a few experimental rooms and unique decorations distinguish it from the average Cambridge frame house. Sprawling across the corner of Mt. Auburn and Plympton Streets, the laboratory now includes three antique houses and a garden fenced off from the road...