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Hardest class of malingerers to detect are those who pretend to have nervous derangements such as headaches, neuralgic pains, vertigo, fits. Worst problem of all is distinguishing the malingerer from the psychopath. Hysterical vomiting, for example, has no more physical basis than self-induced vomiting, yet morally and medically it requires different treatment...
...Nelson left open the fourth big job, that of deputy chairman on program progress who checks on performance to anticipate bottlenecks, detect causes of failure, correct mistakes as they...
From their seats in Washington, offensive-minded officers of the Army detect on Europe's battlefield something more than the chance to help Russia. Ever so faintly they sniff the smell of victory, perhaps in 1942, more likely...
...gave no inkling of how it would police ceiling evasion through lowered quality. Difficult to detect, this practice can increase consumers' cost of living just as surely as the actual increase of prices...
...country's sandlotters into the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress. To ballyhoo the sand-lot business, he introduced many innovations: automatic home-plate duster (compressed air whooshed through an underground tube), neon-lighted Scoreboard, jack-in-the-box microphone for umpire's announcements, electric eye to detect balls...