Word: detective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last of all, a man should seriously ask himself what he really likes to do best. That outweighs all other considerations put together. And if he cannot detect in himself a real desire to concentrate anywhere, then let him searchingly examine his heart and see if toward some one of our many departments he cannot persuade himself to feel a dislike which, if only by the merest shade, is less than the dislike that he feels toward all the others
...breakfast, falls in love with a charming proletarian whom he meets in the hall, lets the Princess to whom he is engaged marry her brother's tutor. To Franz Molnar, author, $50,000 was paid for screen rights - a graceful benevolence, since Molnar could not by any chance detect in the cinema so much as a plagiarism of his play (The Swan, reviewed in TIME, Nov. 5, 1923). For in the play there was no fly, no impolite story, no charming proletarian, and in the end requirements of realism were so much observed, that the princess parted from...
...daily themes, composition, football dinners, probation, prizes, scholarships, dropped Freshmen, goodies, boardwalks, the CRIMSON, the Advocate, the Lampoon, regulations and irregularities, grinds and loafers, Gentile and Jew, hour exams and Class Day--what good or evil phase in all our college life is there in which Briggs did not detect the human element, and in which he did not help in the making of manhood? Such a man may resign, but he cannot retire...
...that name. Now it is not difficult for a courtesan to pretend to be a great lady. The best courtesans are said to give a certain number of hours each day to the practice of this role, some of them, indeed, becoming so adept that no expert can detect them; and they take their places in the world's history as women of quality. But for a great lady to pretend to be a courtesan is at once difficult and absurd. The Baroness Von Popper found...
Colonel Tracy C. Dickson of the Ordnance Department of the U. S. Army told of the development of a 280,000-volt X-ray apparatus to take pictures through three inches of steel. The use of the apparatus is to detect flaws in castings, thus preventing gun explosions...