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Word: detectible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every case of advanced colored T. B. there are five minimal (early) cases. But minimal cases are hard to detect, and most doctors pay them no mind. Without "mass X-raying of entire communities," said Dr. Peyton Fortine Anderson of Manhattan, it is impossible to nip T. B. in the bud. Modern equipment will make such detective work practicable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Black Tuberculosis | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Purpose of the grant: to start 1,200 healthy women volunteers on a five-year course of free, thorough, semiannual pelvic examinations, to detect any signs of early cancer of the uterus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Volunteers | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...does not take supernatural intuition to detect him. He answers questions like a robot, not thinking for himself, but speaking words put into his mouth. He uses cliches like the "psychology of the business man"--Wolff's contribution to Economics A--until the grader, coming across it for the twentieth time, cannot help but see its origin. And cannot help but grade accordingly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLUE BOOK BLUES | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

History I in a statement last night emphasized its policy of "discounting loose generalizations and vague formulae." In an attack on canned answers the statement said, "Pre-digested material, steadily recurring in a set of blue-books, is not difficult to detect, and a deliberate effort to deal with it will be made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Principal Survey Courses Adopt Measures to Hit Exam Tutoring | 5/24/1939 | See Source »

...greatest educational system in all history equip the American people to detect [these] ancient fallacies? . . . Why have so many educators been so easily persuaded to chase butterflies that will take all education as we have known it in America into oblivion? . . . To conclude . . . I think there is a basis for hope. . .. I think it is in the idea of noblesse oblige...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mr. Jones | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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