Word: detective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...system will be different," he said, "that is all. The H. A. A. officials do not like to assume the role of detectives, but we have been informed of several individuals who are busily practicing counterfeit signatures in anticipation of Saturday's game. We intend to detect this abuse, and punish it, in every possible case...
...with which to obtain spectra of the corona,--the gaseous haze surrounding the dark disc during totality; an Einstein camera, the gift of Professor C. L. Poor of Columbia, and especially adapted to proving the Einstein gravitational theory, and a new type of interferometer called the "etalon", designed to detect motion in the Corona. In addition the apparatus included a moving picture machine with which the first films ever taken of an eclipse were obtained...
...geophone, an instrument invented by the French during the War to detect sapping operations of the Germans underground, has been developed by U. S. Engineers for rescue work in mines, gauging tunnel borings, etc. It contains diaphragms like a seismograph, which transmit the most delicate vibrations to the observer's ears. Sledge pounding can be detected 3,000 feet through solid rock, and ordinary talking through 50 feet of coal...
Journalists who can readily detect the difference between a "telegraphoto" and a "telegra-phako...
...Senator from Indiana, are boosting him for the Democratic nomination in 1924 as " A second Cleveland." He looks like Cleveland, they say, he acts like Cleveland, and like Cleveland, he comes from a pivotal state. (The picture captions on this page and page 6 are purposely transposed. Did you detect the error...