Word: detective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Directed by Professor Warren T. Powell, head of the university's student counselling department, the mechanism, all part of a college program evaluating psychological and other forms of standard tests, makes use of 750 "electric fingers" which detect the answers recorded on the answers sheet...
Though smart operators can make money by straight buying and selling of Government issues if they watch the market carefully, or by arbitrage if they can detect unwarranted price spreads between different issues, Sylvia Porter thinks the softest touch in the Government market is "free riding." When the Treasury invites subscriptions for a new issue, anyone can write himself down for a block by depositing 10% of the purchase price on the line, the balance payable on delivery. Because the Treasury takes care to make new issues attractive, they invariably command a premium over the par purchase price, thus anyone...
...homogeneous, have no marrow cavity. So he ordered a branch of antlers, carved a bone peg three inches long, three-eighths of an inch wide, and nailed the head back onto her long thighbone. "A year later [the patient] could walk so well that it was impossible to detect which had been the damaged leg. . . . Within three years the bone peg had been completely absorbed and replaced by the human bone...
Writing in a minute, almost unreadable script, which he explained made it difficult for people to detect his errors in spelling, Steffens jotted down a few paragraphs of his letters every morning, sometimes forgot to mail them. With their air of being written for himself rather than for the people who received them, they are unique in published correspondence-as if Steffens had kept a diary, but found life too interesting to hide its record away, tearing off a few pages from time to time and sending them to his friends...
...story of The Crowd Roars- otherwise chiefly notable because the hero does not win a championship-ringwise cinemaddicts will detect interesting similarities to the careers of two famed contemporary fisticuffers: Gene Tunney and Max Baer. Like Baer, the hero of The Crowd Roars kills an adversary in the ring. Like Tunney, he reads the classics, speaks careful English and falls in love with a socialite. Smooth direction by Richard Thorpe and a tightly integrated narrative, for which major credit goes to Screenwriter George Bruce, weld these and the rest of the paraphernalia of all fight films-bigshot gamblers, fight fixers...