Word: detective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should think our diversity would look like educational chaos. But this is a characteristic of our flexible decentralized concept of democracy. The time may conceivably come when a state or the Federal Government may jeopardize this concept, but as far as secondary education is concerned. I do not detect any danger signals in that direction now. The NLA threat which was real in the 1930's has almost been forgotten...
Scratch Catcher. General Motors Corp. showed off an electric instrument which can detect scratches as small as one millionth of an inch. The "Surfagage" can be used in machine shops and factories to record the surface roughness of an automotive piston, crankshaft, gear tooth or any other part with a machined, ground, honed or lapped surface...
Addressing a group of science writers visiting Boston under the sponsorship of the American Cancer Society, Sweet and Brownell disclosed that surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital are using a "positron," an atomic particle emitted from material made radio-active in the M.I.T. cyclotron, to detect and locate brain tumors...
...happen to be blessed with a naturally systematic mind (as I am), you may have noticed several broad categories of hair styles. Most common perhaps are the bobs, especially the wind blows bobs. Depending on the weather and fluctuating fashions on Garden Street you can detect the sephyrblown bob, the tempestblown bob, the northeastblown job, and (on rare days) the simoom blown...
...Krakatoa explode" Bogart, but a new man, an epic slob. He revels in his new role, his eight day beard, dirty tennis shoes, and habit of drinking gin and river water for refreshment. And best of all, when he gets in a clinch with Hepburn, you can just barely detect him laughing at the whole concept of Charley Olnutt, the poor sinner reclaimed by patriotism and selfless love...