Word: detective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decibel is a varying unit of loudness. It represents the smallest difference in the level of sound which the ear can detect. The decibel difference between the rustle of leaves (8) and whispering (11) represents small intensities of sound. The decibel difference between a motor truck (77) and an elevated train (81) represents tremendous energy...
...Hollywood comeback) rather than Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske (deceased) who "transposed the scene from Britain's Civil War to that of the U. S., and swung to theatrical fame on the clapper of a cardboard bell"? . . . Does TIME deliberately make such errors to discover how many readers will detect them...
...want their crop invaded by other farmers whose land has been rendered idle by the other AAA controls. To give them that protection Mr. Hutson will have to regulate half again as many farmers as raise cotton, twice as many as raise wheat, and he will have to detect and, if necessary, fine and send to jail any others of the 6,000,000 U.S. farmers who might start raising potatoes and any of the 125,000,000 U.S. inhabitants who might buy bootleg potatoes...
...hobby was he able to capitalize to the full on his shrewdness and his talents. His interest in Muscle Shoals led him to aid the late Senator Thaddeus Caraway when that stoop-shouldered, sharp-witted little oldster was probing lobbies in 1929-30. And he was quick to detect the political profit for little Senators with big ears...
First Sign of Palsy. Paralysis agitans, or shaky palsy, is ordinarily an affliction of old age. But often it follows an attack of inflammation of the brain. To help detect the earliest signs of this palsy and combat it, Dr. Abraham Maurice Ornsteen of Philadelphia offered a suggestion which anyone can try in his own living room. The suspect holds both hands before his face, with all fingers clenched except fore finger and thumb. He then rapidly pats each forefinger against each thumb. Normally, the twitching is symmetrical in the two hands. In the abnormal state "one notes a definite...