Word: detective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole 129 in either set would last 16 years. Two-year-olds have a new test, consisting mainly of a box of toy objects, such as an automobile and a shoe, which they can identify by pointing and gurgling. Older children point out the larger of two balls, detect verbal and pictorial absurdities. "Superior adults" restate proverbs in their own words, fill out blanks in sentences, find antonyms...
...been spotted so frequently that astronomers believe every star must go through this spectacular performance once or more in the billions of years of its life. Hence if M. Belorizky has interpreted his findings correctly, the universe may be full of planetary systems too distant for any telescope to detect...
...regard to the remarks about Yale, we detect a note of jealousy in the mention of the large number of Eli's men at the recent Junior Prom at Vassar. Possibly the reason for such a large attendance of rivals lies in Harvard's apparently scornful attitude toward marriage and its study. We should also like to point out that there is more than a slight difference between Hygiene lectures for Freshmen given by a college physician, and lectures for the entire college given by eminent specialists and psychologists on a subject which is still very popular among a great...
...causes of radio static has been discovered as the result of the development of a new instrument which enables scientists to detect imperfections in insulations used for very high voltages. The device, a perfected high-voltage bridge, has been developed at the Graduate School of Engineering by Chester L. Dawes, associate professor of Electrical Engineering, and Reuben Reiter...
Finding an able coxswain is a major problem for most college crew coaches. Coxswains must be strong enough to steer the shell straight, shrewd enough to detect faults in the crew's performance, aggressive enough to correct them, good-natured enough not to mind an occasional ducking for their pains. Until crew-conscious alumni start subsidizing midgets, cox-swains who fill these requirements but still weigh less than 120 Ib. will be scarcer than good halfbacks. Last week in England, crew coaches at Oxford, which hopes on March 24 to win the Boat Race against Cambridge for the first...