Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's voice rose. "The circumstances surrounding the innocent receipt by a public official of any gift are important, so that the public may clearly distinguish between innocent and guilty action . . . Anyone who knows Sherman Adams has never had any doubt of his personal integrity and honesty. No one has believed that he could be bought; but there is a feeling or belief that he was not sufficiently alert in making certain that the gifts, of which he was the recipient, could be so misinterpreted as to be considered as attempts to influence his political actions. To that extent...
...glance tells that many Americans who are classified as Negro have plenty of European "blood"; white people with Negro blood are harder to distinguish. Their African genes may not affect their appearance and they usually do not know that some of their ancestors "passed." In the Ohio Journal of Science, Sociologist Robert P. Stuckert of Ohio State University attempts to estimate how many white Americans have some African ancestry...
...moon would never be the same again. Since it has no atmosphere to limit the motion of small particles, the radioactive residue from the explosion would be carried all over the lunar surface. When earth's scientists finally land on the moon, they would not be able to distinguish between its natural radioactivity, perhaps including material formed by cosmic rays hitting the airless surface, and the nuclear litter scattered by earth's vandals...
About halfway through the ninth grade the Walden students are ready to study man, but they do so first not as historians but as physical anthropologists, noting those details in his physical development, like prehensile grasp, stereoptican view, speech, and erect posture, which distinguish him from other primates...
Individual incentive and initiative are values strongly stressed by the agency, and are, in fact, the values which distinguish agency jobs from all other jobs in the University. Most of the students receive a salary plus a commission, and, consequently, the earnings are generally high...