Word: distinguishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buildings have given their Negro tenants a bright new standard and concept of living. Seventy-five percent of P.S. 133's Negro pupils (95% of its enrollment) come from the two big projects-25% are from one jammed block of dreary "old-law tenements." It is difficult to distinguish between the two groups...
...general manufacturers' excise would perhaps be more expensive than a retail sales tax, since wholesalers and retailers might place an additional mark-up on their increased cost, and increased investment in inventories would almost surely develop at all levels of distribution. In addition, because it is often difficult to distinguish "finished" manufactured goods, this tax would have a tendency to pyramid rapidly...
...Careful always to distinguish between "Soviet microbiology" and the ordinary kind, Prague's Dr. K. Raska offered a solution to a medical puzzle: Why has the scarlet-fever bug dwindled in virulence during the past 50 years? The Soviet-style answer: "Deep social changes...
...visitors, but it is the library which is most used and respected by the world's scholars. Says Novelist Angus Wilson, who is deputy superintendent of the Reading Room of the museum: "Without the resources of the British Museum Library, most of the great scholarly projects which still distinguish this country . . . could not appear...
...youngster who wanted to distinguish himself as an athlete, Doug Hepburn of Vancouver began with disadvantages: a congenitally deformed right foot and shrunken right leg. But a dozen years ago, when Doug was 14, he set himself a goal. He told his mother: "I'm going to be the strongest man in the world...