Word: distinguishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state legislature agreed, approved the blueprint of a $200 million general plan. The first step: administrative union for a group of 29 scattered schools of all sorts for which New York was already paying the bills, including teachers' colleges, technical institutes, schools of forestry and industrial relations. To distinguish it from privately administered and financed New York University (N.Y.U.), the new omnibus outfit was named the State University of New York. With Stanford's onetime Acting President Alvin C. Eurich at its head, S.U.N.Y. began operations last year...
After a tour of New York City Police Headquarters, Princess Gabriela Pacelli, 36, niece-in-law of Pope Pius XII, reported that one thing amazed her: "You cannot distinguish detectives in civilian clothes from other citizens. In Italy you can tell a policeman no matter how he is dressed...
...portraits of the camarlinghi themselves seated stiffly at broad desks with their secretaries. But later samples included fragments of the brilliantly colored, elaborately detailed painting of Siena's prime: virgins with patterned golden haloes, battle scenes, street scenes. Among the anonymous panels on exhibit, experts thought they could distinguish the work of such important Sienese artists as Taddeo di Bartolo, Stefano di Giovanni Sassetta and Ambrozio Lorenzetti...
...lack of any "sensational coverage" and the calm appraisal of intrinsically stirring events that distinguish "The Plymouth Adventure" as an enjoyable work of historical fiction. Perhaps devotees of the historical novel will find the going slow and unexciting, especially in the earlier parts, but those who are after serious enjoyment will find "The Plymouth Adventure" to their taste...
...conduct of our foreign policy we are making a disastrous mistake in falling to distinguish between the 200,000,000 Russian people and the small knot of about 80,000 "hated oppressors" who rule them, Alexandre Kerensky declared last night before an audience which packed the New Lecture Hall. The speech of the former premier of Russia who was overthrown by the Bolsheviks in 1917 was given under the sponsorship of the United Nations Council...