Word: detectably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Personally we could detect no malice in the TIME story. . . . When the President apologizes to another Government for something appearing in an American periodical, he makes himself in a way responsible for the contents of that periodical, now and henceforth. Is this the beginning of some new kind of streamlined, unofficial censorship of the press by the President? . . ."-New York Daily News...
...abnormal rate. This produces writhing and twitching. A tendency toward epilepsy runs in families; this may be due to some small quirk in the brain formation, together with an abnormal metabolism, faulty water balance, etc. Since electroencephalograms (charts of the electric waves discharged from the brain) can detect epileptic tendencies, some epilepsy experts suggest that all young couples about to be married have their heads examined...
...stars, even with the most powerful telescopes, are usually a "family" of the great flery masses which figuratively stand toe-to-toe and spin about each other at the dizzy rate of four revolutions a day. Only by the frequent eclipses which cause varying amounts of light, can astronomers detect these bodies...
...bash which is Physics C is to be further complicated now by the introduction of six weeks on How to Detect Enemy Airplanes by Radio. Physics C is the unfortunate course which tries to adapt itself to the interests of pre-medical and distribution students and still please the mathematicians and future engineers in its midst, the course which tries to be advanced enough to pre-suppose prep school physics and still be simple enough not to require Math A. Now Defense is taking its toll. The scope of the course will be compressed this year into four-fifths...
...Nobody knows how cells in an aged body differ from cells in a young one, nor can they detect much change in body fluids. "A ten-year-old child, looking at your face," confesses Professor Simms, "can tell more about how old you are than the best experts can tell from laboratory study of body tissues...