Word: detective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...axis of the earth. The experiments were in charge of Dr. Paul R. Heyl. Under the Newtonian theory of gravitation, the crystals would vary in weight in certain positions. This Einstein denied, and Dr. Heyl has so far found no variation, though using scales so delicate that they can detect differences of one part in a billion...
...true that many people can hear the radio who cannot detect ordinary sounds. This is due, apparently, only to the high pitch of the sound emitted by radio receivers. The radio telephone, however, may prove useful in training partly deaf persons to hear...
...were tested. Both have been under training for some time. They were blindfolded during the tests to make sure that they were not suffering from merely defective eyesight. One was able to trace with his forefinger figures and designs drawn on a brightly illuminated glass globe. The other could detect general directions, but could not yet distinguish figures clearly...
Given a man of twenty-six with no other principle in his life than the negative one of not conforming, mentally or morally, to any accepted tradition which the world attempts to impose on him, with a mind clear enough to detect the flaws in any existing theories of life but incapable of any constructive thinking, put him in a situation where he has nothing to occupy him, and he is pretty likely to be unhappy. Treat him with large doses of Samuel Butler and other anti-Victoreans of the "naughty nineties" and he is quite as likely to convince...
Fitzgerald seems to have taken this advice seriously. For all its divergences and extraneous detail one can detect in this "The Beautiful and Damned" what looks suspiciously like a purpose. The author would probably not like to be accused of "teaching a lesson" but, whether intentionally or not he has so written his story that to many of his readers it will carry a very definite moral. Indeed "The Beautiful and Damned", if condensed a little, would make a very effective tract for a prohibition organization...