Word: detective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thermocouple which translates the infra red rays into faint currents of electricity. A compact amplifier which Physicist Edward Elway Free built for Commander Macneil, builds up the fog-eye's currents until they are strong enough to turn on warning lights, ring a gong. The fog-eye can detect differences of temperature of one-fifty-thousandth of a degree Centigrade. Its theoretical effec- tiveness is the heat of a candle eight miles away. The amplifier reacts to direct electrical currents as small as one-five-billionths of an ampere or, said plump Dr. Free at the fog-eye demonstration...
There is a further point of great importance, if the folowing proposals are to be successfully carried out: there must be a more perfect understanding between the administrative officers of the College and the editors of the CRIMSON than I seem to detect from the course of the two series of articles published to date. The devilish difficulty of undergraduate journalism, as viewed from the windows of the college offices, is that to maintain intimate relations is a labor of Sisyphus. Annually the officers roll the stone up to the top of the incline, and the next autumn they must...
...inflammation, continued Dr. Norris in his report, "obviously antedated the boxing match, but because of its insidious development it would not necessarily give symptoms and would have been highly improbable to detect at the time of the physical examination before the bout. In the ring, however, it interfered with Schaaf's boxing skill so that he was less able to avoid blows. In addition, blows not in themselves dangerous aggravated the meningo encephalitis [inflammation]." At Albany, New York State Senators chattered about repealing "Mayor" Walker's boxing laws, and safeguarding the health of boxers. At Boston, a Massachusetts...
...volumes dumped into the Poetry Room are worth the trouble of reading, and those which are, most often will be found only after a tedious search. There is no catalogue system in use, and the small size of most of the volumes makes them particularly difficult to detect. An its inaccessibility is of course, a contributing factor in the unpopularity of the Room...
...various means which House librarians have devised to detect the loss and to secure the return of books illegally taken from the shelves are, for the most part, reasonable and effective alternativs to a turnstile system. But in the case of at least one House, the method in use deserves close inspection...