Word: detectible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Dr. Sheehan: "When a competent plastic surgeon performs this sort of an operation no scar remains which a photograph will reveal. Only a sharp eye can detect the line of the incision in vivo...
...epileptic's skull is a firm barrier against studying his affliction. However, Drs. Hallowell Davis, 39, and Frederic Andrews Gibbs, 32, of Harvard have managed to detect intelligible electrical messages from the brains of epileptics through that barrier. Last week Drs. Davis & Gibbs went to Detroit to tell the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology how they received the epileptic messages and what they were...
...gave his name to Hicksville, L. I. which still is a Quaker centre. Though for a time an Orthodox Quaker hastened to cross the street when he saw a Hicksite coming, the sharp distinction between conservative and liberal dulled with time. Only an expert eye can detect the small religious difference between Herbert Hoover and Haverford College, both Orthodox, and onetime Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and Swarthmore College, both Hicksite. Even in hidebound Philadelphia, for friendship as well as economy, Hicksite and Orthodox Monthly Meetings have been worshipping together during the past few years. Last week the Yearly Meetings...
...doctor would probably have slapped him on the back and told him that his heart was as sound as a dollar. The underlying conditions which bring on an attack of angina pectoris usually exist in the arteries of the heart muscle. Yet the physician may not be able to detect them with a cardiograph or x-rays. In general, honest doctors admit that angina pectoris and its causes baffle them, that all they can do is to stand off Death for a while...
...reported: "The wood for this dwelling was cut in the year 1260 A. D." But what interested the Carnegie Institution most was his finding evidence of periodicity in his charts which led him to believe that weather might repeat itself in cycles, and his invention of a way to detect and analyze such cycles...