Word: distinguisher
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...difficult to see that this confusion results from a failure to distinguish between an investigation of particular conditions at Norfolk, which would have fallen to the province of Commissioner Dillon, and a general penal investigation, whose outcome belongs to Mr. Dillon's superior. Governor Ely is at fault in not having made this distinction, in giving carte blanche to Mr. Hurley and then in refusing to face the implications which that carte blanche contained. whatever adjustment he may make must be a rough adjustment, for particular and general issues must be differently handled, and their fusion in the Auditor...
...Conant has masterfully combined the ideals of former President Lowell with those of so-called Progressive Education, and by so doing he has saved Harvard from the dismal abyss of mediocrity into which it might have fallen. He is about to inaugurate at Harvard a policy which will eventually distinguish it from its neighbors, and he is at least courageous enough to imply that those who do not possess the talent, or are not in sympathy with his ideals and policy, can go elsewhere. And even the most patriotic of Harvard men would admit, (perhaps on second thought), that there...
Will it be possible for you to arrange a program including the President of the U. S. and his microphone double? Do not announce which is to speak. Leave that to your listeners and let us try and distinguish between these two wonderful voices. BEN R. LEIGH...
...well-to-do Hartford physician, Katharine Hepburn was a member of the Class of 1929 at Bryn Mawr, prefaced her one important Broadway performance in The Warrior's Husband with four small parts and several unproductive engagements as understudy. Since becoming a celebrity, she has fiercely fought to distinguish between her private and her professional life. Of her education, she says: "I never went to Bryn Mawr-that was another Katharine Hepburn." Of her husband. Insurance Broker Ludlow Ogden Smith, whom she married Dec. 12, 1928 and with whom she lives in Manhattan at No. 244 East 49th...
...unimposing and both sides seem quite willing for the battle to go on indefinitely. After a short truce which was agreed to only after considerable urging by the assembled American diplomats the war was resumed when a Commission from the League of Nations failed to do anything save distinguish itself by its peculiarly inept handling of the matter...