Word: distinguished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comparable experience, a comparable discipline, a comparable community of interest . . . be available to mankind at large? . . . Clearly [we may] hope that there are other areas of human experience . . . to which the qualities which distinguish scientific life may be congenial and appropriate...
...Weatherman Reichelderfer contends that, with all their brilliant ideas, the Europeans have not advanced forecasting directly: "Their discoveries did not point the way to techniques in forecasting that would distinguish heavy snowstorms of this kind that swing inland [e.g., the recent storm] from those that remain...
...spent almost a year in Germany with Military Government, in the unit conducting opinion surveys among the German population. I know how difficult it is to distinguish between apparent and real facts in Germany; Mr. Welles, in his report, is one of very few correspondents who appears to have been able to make this distinction...
...vintners of the Palatinate sought (as they do every year) a name to distinguish the 1947 vintage. What to call this year of hunger, hate, uncertainty, and growing fear? The vintners discarded Kalorienspritzer (calory splasher) and Zonenschleicher (zonal sneaker). They chose Knochenrappler, which means "rattler of bones." The children of Germany knew well what the vintners meant; thousands of German kids, searching for food, rattled bones in garbage cans. If they found an egg, however stale, it was precious. And if the egg could be cooked in an old war helmet (see cut), that was a symbol of the menacing...
...feel they are entitled at least to a special row somewhere near the front of the room and think the "ideal solution would be to include Radcliffe in the alphabetical plan." To those who think this would complicate attendance-taking, they point out "that it is quite simple to distinguish between a Radcliffe and a Harvard student...