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Word: detective (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bizarre predictions of Einstein's General Relativity is that time runs more slowly in a strong gravitational field. The effect is slight and hard to detect but Astronomer Daniel Popper of U.C.L.A. believes that he has caught time in the act of running slow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Slow Time | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...religious and social service organization, Phillips Brooks House is certainly correct in opposing racial discrimination. The Housing Registry performs a most valuable service, particularly to graduate students and their families, by listing information on rooming houses in the area. But unless it can effectively detect discrimination when it occurs, the Registry is in danger of merely feeding numerous customers to the landladies so they can afford to discriminate against minority groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tea and Prejudice | 5/20/1954 | See Source »

...apparatus at Hanford was designed to detect the neutrino, a ghostly particle that the physicists invented to make their nuclear equations come out even. When an atom disintegrates, the mass of its fragments plus the mass equivalent of the energy released should equal the mass of the original atom. Often they do not; a small amount of mass disappears as completely as a snowflake in the ocean. This is serious because the physical sciences are based on the principle that mass can turn into energy and vice versa, but neither can just disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Elusive Neutrino | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Charles I. Maidanick '56, who was seriously injured in Friday's accident, is reported in good condition at Massachusetts General Hospital. He still has a piece of glass lodged in the cornea of his left eye, however, and can do no more with that organ than detect light and darkness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laboratory Explosion Produces New Safety Enforcement Rules | 3/26/1954 | See Source »

...they say, "Ho Chi Minh would wither on the vine, like the guerrilla leader Markos in Greece." But what price would the Moscow-Peking axis exact for such a boon? If the enemy offered it at all, the price would be high. To which Paris replies, hopefully, that they detect an "appetite for negotiations" and signs of inner tiredness among the Viet Minh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tempting Fruit | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

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