Word: detected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance. Even before they went out to dinner, it was fairly obvious to first-afternooners that Playwright O'Neill had moved Greece to New England. Those who knew their Euripides were quick to detect a parallel between Mourning Becomes Electra and the classic tragedy, recalled how Agamemnon, returning from the Trojan War, was killed by his wife (Clymnestra), how the long-lost son Orestes finally killed his mother's lover and his mother at the instigation of Elektra...
...wisdom of keeping children out of school during an infectious epidemic, as of infantile paralysis, last week struck Dr. Thomas Parran, New York State Commissioner of Health, as poor. His advice: "In the school there is the opportunity for careful observation of the children to detect any signs of illness. Our observations have indicated, moreover, that a great majority of children are not being kept on their own premises or restricted as to attendance at other places of public assemblage. Next to their own home and yard, I believe the school is the safest place for children...
...trying to imitate Ernest Hemingway with one hand and Philip Barry with both feet. The comedy is only laughable in spots-as when Nikki changing her slippers, explains why by saying: "On account of I can run faster in red shoes." Sophisticated audiences may be pleased to detect something unusual-a subtle and difficult theme -in the film but they will sympathize with other cinemaddicts who are likely to criticize it by laughing at the wrong places...
...Roman Catholic Church. . . . For many years it shone like the morning sun struggling to break through a lowered sky. But then the face began to harden. . . . The features stood out in grotesque distortion, the mouth very wide from shrieking anathemas, the nose long and sharp to detect heresies; and the skin was covered with the scabs of corruption...
...heavier, he used seawater, fluorite and other halogen compounds. He burned each of them and sent their complex light through a polariscope and then through a magnetic field. A magnet twists polarized light to a calculable extent. The fineness of this magneto-optic rotation is such that it can detect one part of a substance in 100 billion parts. The greatest amount of eka-iodine Dr. Allison could find in any of his substances was one part in one billion. Eka-iodine is the rarest, most fugitive thing on earth...