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Song sharks are hard to catch. Most modern sharks are carefully surrounded by expert legal talent. But they are easy to detect. What gives them away is asking for fees. No legitimate U.S. song publisher ever accepts money for publishing a song...
Unloading the Detail. The 89 pages given over to wartime Washington are a brief masterpiece of social reporting. No U.S. writer can match Dos Passos' use of the hackneyed, senseless, stupefying jargon of political insincerity. Nor is any other writer so quick to detect the process by which ideas harden into cliches, stock answers, pat remarks as offensive as the slamming of a door...
...infectious jaundice which plagued the army in Africa is contagious, can be given to canaries for experimental purposes, but a jaundiced canary is hard to detect...
...last week Dr. Foulger has tried the machine on about 100 workers, found it a very sensitive indicator of such borderline illnesses as an incipient cold, a run-down condition, a morning after. The machine's chief use in industry is to detect poor working conditions. When all the hearts in a department give out low booms, something is wrong-e.g., slow escape of gas, poisonous chemicals, overwork...
...every farmhouse in the country has a shotgun behind the kitchen door and these frequently become involved in crimes. . . ." Dr. Snyder debunks some common notions about poisons: arsenic and strychnine, for example, though often used, are very dangerous to a murderer, because their presence in the body can be detected for some time after the murder. Strychnine, one of the surest, quickest killers (sometimes within 15 minutes), can be detected three months after death. One of the hardest poisons to detect is morphine (its effects are easily confused with alcoholism, apoplexy). One of the deadliest is aconite (a hundredth...