Word: detective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Polarograph is the device's name; quick, precise qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis is its purpose. It can tell the nature and constituents of a substance in from three to five minutes. It can detect substances dissolved in one million times their volume of water, and can do this with just two drops of the solution. It can detect the relative amounts of almost identical substances in a mixture, as fumaric and maleic acids. It can detect minute traces of poisonous adulterants of alcohol and ether, natural and synthetic vinegar, normal and abnormal urine. Professor Heyrovsky, who has been...
...annual show of the Pekingese Club of America the little dogs which peered out from wicker or glass cases strikingly resembled their fabled ancestors. There were the tawny coats, the pendulous ears, the wide chest and narrow hips of the lion. No imagination strain was needed to detect a simian likeness in their bright, popping eyes and bashed-in noses...
...annual death rate from the disease, now recorded as 150,000 in the U. S. and Canada, would be reduced by at least 33%, or 50,000 per year." But integrity compelled Dr. Stuart William Harrington of the Mayo Clinic to note that "present clinical methods are inadequate to detect malignancy until it is fairly well advanced...
Stations in the farflung line will use identical instruments, to measure wind currents on Earth and high above, to observe clouds and Northern Lights. They must study sunshine, moonshine, skyshine. They will take the temperature of air, earth, water. They will detect characteristics of the Earth's magnetic flux. New will be the research into the nature of radio reception everywhere...
Senator Couzens: Oh, don't be so innocent. How do you detect...