Word: detective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another specific job is to warn of thi approach of war gas, so there is a committee called the Union Feminine Civique et Sociale which trains women sniffers (flaireuses) to detect nearly odorless gasses by smell without getting killed by taking too deep a whiff...
...there is a movie fan living who does not know who killed Lawyer Crosby in the wall behind the bookcase, The Cat and the Canary has been imitated often enough for even cinemamateurs to detect The Cat by its feline smile, before it gets the bird...
Instruments for detection of submarines have been made much more accurate, he said, and the Scapa Flow attack probably happened because there were so many ships in the harbor that it was extremely difficult to detect one more. The most successful invention for finding submarines has been an "echo" arrangement, which determines distance and direction...
...Standard rule in allergy therapy: "Free the patient of exposure, if possible. If not, make him capable of sustaining it." Standard procedure consists of: 1) skin and diet tests to detect the offending substances; 2) injections or feeding of minute quantities of the allergen until immunity is produced. This procedure takes many weary months, often years, has brought a good percentage of successful results with victims of every kind of allergy-from canteloupe to horsehair...
...bottom can fire a torpedo in any direction it likes, and the course of torpedoes can be further directed by means of gyroscopes in their tails. The target's course and position can be calculated from, hydrophones. But warships have hydrophones too, and the British claim they can detect a submarine's position even when her motors are not running. Why Royal Oak or her escort failed to do so was another question. Evidently somebody blundered...