Word: discernment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unhappy Mr. Miller was able to discern one ray of light. That was the Widows' & Widowers' Convention at Atlantic City over the weekend. Said he, bravely: "I'll get a chance to look over the seven or eight hundred other women and we'll have applejack and peanuts...
Most precious use so far for the Hampton technique is to discern an ulcer at the pyloric end of the stomach. That is the stomach's most active spot. Ulcers there, declares Director George Hoyt Bigelow of Massachusetts General Hospital, invariably turn into cancers. As with all cancers, if the surgeon can recognize them in their early stages, he can destroy them before they destroy his patient. Director Bigelow told the surgeons in Boston last week that his staff surgeons, by operating quickly, have prevented cancers in practically every pyloric ulcer Dr. Hampton has photographed for them...
...Colonel Robins," cried Comrade Litvinoff, "was the first to discern health and vitality in what other people believed to be a stillborn child...
...Light." Without mentioning Capitalism by name, Communist Litvinoff then turned his speech into a suave, polished, 100% Red enumeration of Capitalist failures and concluded with a dramatic understatement: "Against this gloomy background it is impossible, in my opinion, not to discern in all that is going on in my country a ray of light. ... I hope that ... I have not transgressed the limits permitted by my agreement with President Roosevelt regarding propaganda...
...present bull session, and there find subjects suited to the intelligence and grasp of the college student, and lurid enough to hold his wandering inner gaze. If these matters be important and serious, well and good; if not, still well and good, for no one will discern the difference or care...