Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seventy-seven stars (count 'em) and "1000 Hollywood" beauties (try and count 'em) are appearing several times daily at the Olympic and Uptown Theatres. Although the whole revue is photographed in technicolor, there is little to distinguish it from its predecessors in the field. There is too much material to be handled in the large cast...
...July. Monarchy if they had only fifteen minutes to say it. I believe and I still maintain that it is quite possible to give a brief characterization of the regime of Louis Philippe in the time allotted, provided the student knows enough about it to be able to distinguish what is important from what is unimportant. The misapprehension of your contributor seems to me like evidence that there is still a pronounced tendency on the part of some students to take a very literal and narrow view of their course work. William L. Langer...
...describes the general external characteristics in the adult male which distinguish the Mountain from the Coast Gorilla as, "a longer palate and often a narrower skull, a thicker pelage or belt, shorter arms and longer legs, large amount of black hair, and prominent fleshy callosity on the chest...
Blindness Defined. Fixing on a definition of blindness was a difficulty. The U. S. definition is "inability to see well enough to read even with the aid of glasses," or for illiterates "inability to distinguish forms and objects with sufficient distinctness." The Society prefers the British legal description: "too blind to be able to read the ordinary school books used by children," and "unable to perform any work for which eyesight is essential." A one-eyed person is not blind technically. Nor is the usual near-sighted person...
...here at Cambridge involves in actual practice. In the first place the coaching system is by no means uniform throughout the various sports; nor in fact is it even entirely amateur, the varsity cricket teams being under the tutelage of professionals. In the second place it is essential to distinguish sharply between the university and the college teams. There is little more connection between them here than there is between university and class teams at Harvard, and the coaching to which they are respectfully subjected is as different in the one case as in the other...