Word: detective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detect Poor Speech
...editor of the editorial page." Last month Clark McAdams, editorial page editor since 1926, was advanced to the position of associate editor. By last week, his successor had had ample time to shake himself down into his new job and Post-Dispatch readers had had ample opportunity to detect in the management of the page "the sharp incisive style of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's able Washington correspondent, Charles Griffith Ross...
...Dartmouth researchers are not yet sure of aniseikonia's cause. They think it may be some malformation of the front part of the eye, or a larger number of light-sensitive cones in one retina than in the other. To detect the condition they have devised a complex instrument of peepholes, dots and lights, called the Ophthalmo-Eikonometer. To correct the condition they, and American Optical Co., have developed "iseikonic spectacles" with miniature telescope lenses to balance images...
Under Books in your March 19 issue of TIME, you show a photograph of Lion Feuchtwanger, and I failed to see any resemblance to a "fat-cheeked rat," although I do not propose to vie with any member of TIME'S staff to detect a resemblance of a horseface, frog-face, pig-face, or fat-cheeked-rat"-face in man. If you really meant by this statement that his character was ratlike, why not be honest about...
...smuggling, a bureau of narcotics to combat dope peddlers. Its income tax intelligence unit ferrets out tax evaders. There are special agents in the Department of Agriculture to investigate violations of the Pure Food & Drugs Act, in the State Department to trace passport frauds, in the Interior Department to detect crimes committed on Indian reservations, in the Interstate Commerce Commission to nab freight rate rebaters and in the Federal Trade Commission to prevent unfair trade practices...