Word: distinguished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ancient Way. When living alone, the cells are amoebae, and impossible to distinguish from other amoebae which have never learned to cooperate. They crawl slowly at random, grazing on bacteria. When one grows large, it divides in two by the cheerless, asexual mode of multiplication for which amoebae are famous. This is the ancient way of life, before cooperation...
Just after dawn, the lights which flooded the white marble building on Constitution Avenue flicked off. A few minutes later the armed sentries patrolling the terraced grounds were relieved. By the time the first visitors began arriving, there was little but its name to distinguish the building from scores of other Government offices. Above the entrance were the words: "United States Public Health Service...
IHOFA exhibits all the essentials of the standard Hollywood production line model--boy, girl, and rocky road to romance, satisfactorily traversed. But a well turned plot and some fine acting by Victor Moore distinguish it from the run of the mill and transform it into entertainment that will please even the cinematic gourmet...
...mixed a frothy mortar of sex and exodontia. Readers are likely to find Dr. Eskelund's love affairs (he was thrice-married, had many mistresses) less picaresque, however, than his adventures in oral hygiene, although there were times when it became hard for the dentist himself to distinguish between them...
Cheyenne (Warner) is as hard to distinguish from most other westerns as one Fred Harvey lunchroom is from the next. Dennis Morgan chases assorted desperadoes up & down hill through semi-arid shrubbery and past many picturesque specimens of erosion. The desperadoes chase the stagecoaches. Every so often someone gets shot, plunges from saddle or coachman's seat and rolls over & over. The hero plugs four desperate characters, largely because they hadn't lived long enough to learn that in bright sunlight a man's shadow can forecast his presence, however stealthy...