Word: detective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Businessmen, architects and contractors on whom Ickes investigators were turned loose to try to detect graft in every PWA project...
...enactment by hired actors became less important. Occasionally, however, certain transitions in the news narrative did require special shots. Thus the Prince Saionji sequence was briefly filled out in Manhattan by a helpful Japanese whose resemblance to the Last of the Genro is so close that few laymen can detect the synthetic...
...society's annual contests. The contests are governed by only two rules: 1) contestants must not have professional assistance; 2) they must not use 35 millimetre film and reduce it to the 8 or 16 millimetre sizes to which the contest is limited. Since it is impossible to detect reduced film, each entry is accompanied by a sworn statement that no such process has been used...
...factory building, nor a replica of the Kremlin nor of Potsdam's ornate Neues Palais awaited President Roosevelt's first official inspection last week. As a matter of fact the work of enlarging the Executive Offices had been done so cunningly that it would take a sharp eye to detect the changes from the outside. But on the inside there was ample evidence of what Architect Lorenzo Simmons Winslow, a $4,000-3-year employe of the National Park Service, ably assisted by Eric Gugler, consulting architect, and N. P. Severin Co. of Chicago had done with the $325.000 assigned...
...liking for the saddle," stated one of the attendants. "But he's 22 years old and a short run such as that around the Stadium, is about all he can do. The college influence has made him quite an aristocrat, but, thank God, we haven't been able to detect any signs of a Harvard accent on him yet. The last mule the Army brought to Cambridge was a draft animal used for dumping the garbage at Fort Banks, but the megaphones seemed to remind him of the garbage cans, and he so persistently kept backing into them...