Word: detective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presages the measles. They will now be able to place a specimen of mucus from nose and throat stained by nigrosin under a microscope and tell in a moment whether or not the virus bodies that cause the measles are present. More important still, they will be able to detect carriers-people who carry the virus bodies about with them, infecting others, yet who are themselves immune to the disease...
...Popolo d'Italia, personal newsorgan of Protector-of-Islam Benito Mussolini, editorialized: "No one ever entrusted anyone with a mandate to sow destruction and massacre in the Holy Land. . . . Whole streets are razed as punishment for acts whose perpetrators the British authorities are unable to detect and do not wish to investigate. . . . Laws which for thousands of years have guaranteed Justice to civilized mankind are openly trampled on and innocent citizens are punished for deeds for which they bear no responsibility. . . . The news from Palestine cannot but arouse a sense of horror throughout the civilized world...
These reports were welcomed by plant physiologists as two more interesting contributions to the important and already broadly extended research into what makes vegetation grow. It is estimated that one ounce of active plant hormone would stimulate enough vegetation to girdle the earth at the equator. Researchers can now detect the effect on one plant of one ten-billionth of a gram of hormone. No subject has excited plant physiologists more than this in the past decade, and it has seen its major development in the last five years. Yet it was foreshadowed a half century ago by Julius...
...help of $10,000 contributed by late Merchant Edward Albert Filene as his last gesture toward reforming the world, Professor Clyde Raymond Miller of Columbia University's Teachers College, one of the most skillful propagandists of his time this week began to help U. S. citizens to "detect and analyze propaganda" at $2 a year From their Manhattan "laboratory" a small basement room near Columbia on Morningside Heights, Professor Miller and 15 other scholars sent this week to more than 3,000 U. S. newspaper editors, Congressmen, Governors, educators, ministers leaders of labor and industry, a four-page folder...
Chief customers for Propaganda Analysis are expected to be teachers and students, for the Institute is mainly concerned with immunizing the coming generation against ignorance-by-propaganda. Its material will be used in study units on how to detect and analyze propaganda to be started this year in at least eight schools including public schools in Bronxville and Gloversville, N. Y., Rock Island, Ill. Newton, Mass...