Search Details

Word: detectable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Saratoga was practically complete when its star died last month of cerebral edema. For the few remaining sequences, mostly in the middle of the picture, director Jack Conway used longshots of a double so adroitly that cinemaddicts are not likely to detect Miss Harlow's absence. Good shots: the flamingos at Miami's Hialeah Park; Duke Bradley's assistant (Cliff Edwards) singing a race-track ballad "The Horse with the Dreamy Eyes," in a crowded car on the track special from Maryland; Bradley making book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 2, 1937 | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...Sigmund Spaeth ("Doctor" because he wrote a thesis on Milton's Knowledge of Music) advertises himself as "writer, broadcaster, lecturer, composer, arranger, general showman and entertainer." But he is best known as "The Tune Detective," points out in books and on the radio the similarity between I'm Always Chasing Rainbows and Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu, who can detect in Yes, We Have No Bananas elements of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean, I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls and Seeing Nellie Home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Detective Into Dean | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...rapping of knuckles echoed through the land. Chief political officers in the Kiev, Volga and Caucasus districts were reprimanded for "political blindness and carelessness" in failing to detect intriguers in their midst. Two unnamed spies of a "certain foreign intelligence service" were arrested. The West Siberian Geological Trust, ordered to explore for oil in the Kuznetsk Basin in 1935, discovered that a number of their employes had spent 1,300,000 rubles (about $260,000) on drilling two wells where there was obviously not a chance of finding oil. Eleven more railway wreckers, said to be working for Japan, were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Reprimands & Death | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...article described the efforts of the Department of Agriculture to detect the adulteration of olive oil with tea seed oil. It described the operation of the so-called Fitelson test. The serious vice of this article is that it is so constructed as to lead the average reader to conclude that measured by this test our client's product was not pure olive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 3, 1937 | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...members of the American Philosophical Society assembled before him. At a signal, all the savants raised their hands in unison, put the tablets in their mouths. Eighteen reported a sweet taste. Others said it was bitter, some said it was both sweet and bitter, still others could detect no taste at all. Dr. Blakeslee declared his belief that differences of taste among human beings are inborn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Philosophers in Philadelphia | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

Previous | 410 | 411 | 412 | 413 | 414 | 415 | 416 | 417 | 418 | 419 | 420 | 421 | 422 | 423 | 424 | 425 | 426 | 427 | 428 | 429 | 430 | Next