Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spare, sandy-haired Major Gerald Constable Maxwell's paternal grandfather was William Maxwell, 10th Baron Herries; his maternal grandfather was Simon Fraser, 14th Baron Lovat. He was not the first of the English families of the Maxwells and the Frasers to distinguish himself in war (he shot down 30 German planes, for which he was amply decorated), but certainly no Maxwell or Fraser before him had so distinguished himself in business. After the War, Mr. Maxwell acquired the Chrysler agency in London, sold so many Chryslers that he was able to sell the agency for a considerable sum. Having...
What is represented by the term "the Classics" in this University is a dull joke in the minds of too many of its students. Most of them have memorized and forgotten the slight vocabulary necessary to turn a given amount of Cicero into English and thus distinguish themselves by the degree of Artium Baccalaurcus from their unlearned brethren of the S.B. The pursuit of the Classics as a four-year course of study is definitely exotic and the expression "dead languages," uttered in a tone of contempt, illustrates the depths to which this subject has sunk...
...stoves - all without complaint. Even when the tender Achilles tendon (just above the heel) "is squeezed these children make no protest and show no sign of pain," reported the doctors. When touched with a pin they can feel the difference between the point and the head. And they can distinguish slight changes in temperature. The doctors concluded that the children "do not have analgesia or loss of any type of sensibility. They are merely indifferent to pain...
...There is one mystery we haven't solved in Japan yet," mused he. "The mystery of the smoke-screen that veiled the Panay during the bombing so our airplane pilots could not distinguish her American flag. Those bombers thought they were bombing fleeing Chinese...
...Summing Up begins with a discouraging catalogue of Maugham's reasons for not writing an autobiography. He has a poor memory. His life has not been adventurous. He has written so many novels that he can scarcely distinguish fact from fiction in his work. "I can never remember a good story," he complains, "till I hear it again and then I forget it before I have had a chance to tell it to somebody else." But he realized that it would "exasperate" him if he should die before he had written down his thoughts on the subjects that have...