Word: distinguisher
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...unfortunate that the officers responsible for the enforcement of State and Federal statutes cannot distinguish between editorial oversight and pornographic writing. Anyone who read the current issue of the "Advocate" can scarcely fail to realize that there was no intention in any of the stories to present dirt for dirt's sake, and only had there been such an intention would the present controversy be justified...
When will the great American public learn to distinguish between the printed word as such and the spirit behind it? The failure to draw such a line was responsible for keeping "Ulysses" out of the country. It has been responsible for innumerable cases of Boston censorship. And it will be responsible time and again in the future so long as phrases are taken out of their context, deprived of their background, and thus berefit of all true significance...
...psychiatrists declare that our science is sufficiently advanced for us to distinguish between real, pretended and unconscious motives, even in statesmen. The desire to disguise national militarism by continual talk about peace will not protect political leaders from the judgment of history. The secret promoters of militarism are responsible for the boundless misery which a new war is sure to bring...
WillB Hadley's peculiar first name is due to the fact that his father was also named Will and his mother added "B" to the boy's to distinguish father and son. He studied finance at Wharton School, worked for the Manhattan accounting firm of Haskins & Sells, helped Charles Evans Hughes investigate New York insurance companies. In 1906 Roosevelt I named him assistant auditor of Puerto Rico. Three years later he was called home to overhaul Philadelphia's accounting system, became chief accountant in the office of the city controller. He did so good a job that...
...efforts of Italian sporting celebrities to distinguish themselves abroad have not been altogether fortunate. Ablest of the lot, hulking Primo Carnera, after being a pugilistic laughing stock for years, finally surprised himself by winning the world's heavyweight championship in 1933, only to lose it within a year under circumstances so distressing that the Italian Government now refuses him permission to leave home. That the annual long-distance swimming race at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto could be construed as an equivalent of the title which Carnera lost is exactly the sort of notion which an Italian would...