Word: detective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longer? One dislikes to go into personalities, but in some of the games, particularly Saturday's with Holy Cross, Dr. T. K. Richards, that enthusiastic oarsman, appeared to be the most prominent Harvard athlete on the field. Hardly would the play become exciting, before Dr. Richards, ever vigilant, would detect signs of injury on the part of one of his charges and in fine form and red leather coat, he would sprint across the greensward to make an examination...
...wife, two sons, a daughter), when flames suddenly burst from the roof of his house. For an hour, local firemen, 100 villagers and the Doyles labored to save books and manuscripts. An old part of the house was consumed, a new addition saved. No Sherlock Holmes was needed to detect the cause: a spark on the old dry roof...
...ysberg, its Chairman, came to U. S. shores (TIME, April 1), only Vonly, the astute observer, suspected the object of their visit. And when, last week, the U. S. affiliate, with a distinguished German-American directorate, announced a $30,000,000 bond issue, only Writer Farrell seemed to detect a significance, let alone a menace, in what Herren Bosch & Düysberg had accomplished. He, anti-Teutonic, antiSemitic, shrilled at U. S. financiers for associating with the "notorious" German Dye Trust, harked back to War days in which German chemists had unkindly embarrassed the U. S. dye industry through failure...
Catholic Foch & Atheist Clemenceau. Spruce, sword-handy professors at the French War College were first to detect the military genius of Student Foch, quick to realize that he possessed a unique "geometric brain," keen, strong, supple, above all superbly balanced. Eight years after graduation he was welcomed into the faculty, achieved popularity and reputation in a few swift years, produced those master manuals of the new warfare, The Principles of War and The Conduct of War, and presently was gazetted Lieutenant Colonel without ever having commanded on a field of battle. With a future of promise unsurpassed before him, suddenly...
Only a trained ear would detect in this powerful pronouncement the fact that General Smuts was weasling and must weasle every word he says about the "race problem." True, the Negroes of Cape Colony vote for him, but they are the only blacks in all South Africa who are enfranchised; and in all the other provinces General Smuts draws his support from whites who are fanatically opposed to giving their blackamoor neighbors the ballot...