Word: detective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worried about anything more serious than a bad cold or a ticket for overtime parking. It also contains some practical observations on how to sleep, instructions in physical exercises that seem as likely to break a patient's back as make him relax, shrewd words on how to detect bad influences, how to keep your wife from reading in bed, how to locate habit-patterns that lead to incorrect appraisals of a bad situation, how to detect inhibitions that block purposeful action, how to recognize worry when it sneaks into the consciousness disguised as deep feelings, jealousy or thought...
...will frequently be too puzzled to do so if the person stands with feet together and hands on chest. That dogs are inclined to attack people who are afraid of them Author Terhune ascribes to a "fear-smell" arising from increased production of adrenalin in the body. Dogs detect, recognize, hate and despise this odor...
...mouth of the amplifiers the intensity of sound will be about 140 decibels. A decibel is an arbitrary unit representing approximately the minimum intensity change which the human ear can detect. Every increase of one decibel multiplies the intensity by 1.25. One hundred and forty decibels is not 40% louder than 100 decibels, but 10,000 times louder. Loudest human shout ever recorded was 86 decibels. Other recorded loudnesses...
Hypnotized persons have such acuity of sense that they can detect the faintest whisper, the slightest odor. The unconscious mind is a wonderfully accurate timekeeper, as posthypnotic suggestion demonstrates. If during hypnosis the suggestion is made that at a certain time, long after waking from the trance, the subject take off his shoes or burst into tears, he will usually do so precisely on time, though he may not have looked at his watch for hours...
Senator Borah became a candidate because he could not detect a reflection of his liberal dawn on the faces of such men as Herbert Hoover, Kansas' Governor Alfred Mossman Landon or Publisher William Franklin Knox of the Chicago Daily News as they turned toward the Republican convention in Cleveland on June...