Word: detectably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vision, for instance, allows it to "see" beyond the horizon, through fog and clouds, in black dark. It can "see" through stone and steel to detect invisible internal flaws. It can "see" the whiskers on a disease germ that is only a speck in the best microscope...
...Detect fog, smoke, dust and vapors that are invisible to the eye, and take protective action...
...world's top linguists. Small, fast-talking, Baltimore-born Henry Lee Smith Jr., Ph.D. (Princeton), used to awe nationwide radio audiences by interviewing people and telling, by their dialects and inflections, what parts of the U.S. they were from. Often he was able to detect not only Philadelphia, for example, but also what part of Philadelphia. Today Lieut. Smith has a full-time job teaching soldiers, via phonograph records, a smattering of the odd dialects they are meeting from Tunis to Burma. He is an outstanding pedagogue in the thriving field of language-teaching-by-record...
Extremely difficult to detect, pneumonitis is easily confused with the common cold with very similar symptoms in its early stages. In later stages it is accompanied by a fever and the characteristic lung condition of all pneumonia types...
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...