Word: detectably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Courts in general consider lie detectors too unreliable to admit their findings as conclusive evidence. Psychologists are equally skeptical of them. There are now some half-dozen such instruments, depending variously on measurements of blood pressure, breathing, heartbeats, etc., to detect emotional disturbances that are believed to be associated with lying. But, although some inventors claim better than 85% accuracy, proof of a lie detector's infallibility is obviously impossible to obtain. There is no way of guaranteeing that, in some cases, even the best instrument may not tell the wrong story...
...human nose is an extraordinarily sensitive organ: it can detect as little as a billionth of a milligram of an aromatic vapor; the tongue needs at least a million times that amount in order to taste...
Died. Carl Edwards Johansson, 79, Swedish-born father of hair-splitting precision gauges; in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Be ore he was 32, the shaggy-browed toolmaker hand-forged and hand-polished blocks of steel so internally stressless, externally flawless that they could detect a machinist's error to within 2,000,000ths of an inch (a 2,000,000th is to an inch as an inch is to 31.6 miles). Nicknamed "Jo" blocks, they made possible mass production's interchangeability of parts...
...borrowing, lending, and devouring of the hall's incredible stock of Pocket Book murder mysteries ("Death in the Dawn" challenges in popularity the latest Memo change) . . . out of all this, dank, drab and insidious, emanates a contagious disease . . . known only to Naval personnel in training . . . billet fever! One may detect the more obvious symptoms at first glance...
...will hang a photograph of each subject beside his autoportrait. Says he: "The painter, when he stands ... before a mirror, is for once scot-free. . . If he does not quite like his face, he can subtly improve on it. ... Comparison with the 'objective' photographs will let us detect this easily...