Word: distinguisher
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...recall minute details and unrelated data without any attempt at creative thinking or originality certainly do not deserve to be graduated with honors, as many of them now are. Only with the abolition of course grades can the proper emphasis be given to those attributes of thinking that distinguish an educated man from an uneducated...
...Charlestown affair was just one more example of the aimless and poorly conducted demonstrations which a certain number of students in any institution can always be led into supporting. The fact that the participants in Thursday's brawl did not distinguish the particular bone they proposed to pick with the cruiser's crew, although we presume it had something to do with the curbing of personal liberty in Germany, reduced their fracas to the ignominy of childish "bull" baiting. The astuteness of the police in parking their pistols and resorting to skull crunching left their opponents without even the satisfaction...
...existence. The fruit of ten years' work by the Bell Laboratories, the equipment was built on a new principle.* It could send 11 sq. in. of picture per minute, half a newspaper page in 17 min. The result was so nearly perfect that a layman could hardly distinguish between original print and telephoto. But A. T. & T. would not consider re-entering the precarious picture business by itself. Rather, it wanted one or more of the picture agencies to take the project over, leasing the $16,000 machines and A. T. & T. wires at $56 per mile per year...
...only a fat comic section and well-read editorials distinguish the Sunday News. Its book reviews are written by Editor Patterson's attractive, air-minded daughter Alicia who, like her father, is honestly anxious not to be a drone...
...description of the funeral of the late King Albert of Belgium, in your issue of March 5. Mentioning the dignitaries present, you say: 'All in overcoats, a great throng followed on foot. Except for the towering bearskin of Britain's Edward of Wales, there was little to distinguish them." Can TIME possibly have erred regarding this unique head-dress?. . . DOUGLAS M. STEEL Petersburg...