Word: detective
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...your Feb. 25 Miscellany squib about the disgruntled Reno meat packer who found it more profitable to work for OPS than for himself: do I detect here the first faint whisperings of the Great American Economic Revolution, when all merchants will work for OPS, all farmers for PMA, all vets for VA, ad infinitum, leaving only the decontrolled rattlesnake-meat canners and dinosaur-bone collectors to shift for themselves...
...first time in the history of America nearly one third of the national income is being taken by the government: national, state, and local. War comes first in these enormous expenditures. Schools are next. We detect mounting resentment to more taxes...
...television-detector van began prowling London's streets last week. It was beginning a search for 150,000 TV sets whose owners have not paid their annual license fee of ?2 ($5.60) to the General Post Office. Since the van can detect a set only when it is turned on-and if it happens to be within a 100-ft. radius of the truck-illicit televiewers had little reason to tremble in their boots...
...Boston School Committee this week unanimously approved a plan to train teachers to detect juvenile delinquency, or tendencies toward it, in grade school children. The project closely follows a proposal made in a recent book by Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, and his wife, Dr. Eleanor Glueck, a research criminologist at the Law School...
...representation at the Holy See blew itself out. Although the issue is still sufficient to produce a few decibals from Texas, it has faded from the halls of Congress, from the newspapers, and even from many Protestant pulpits. Now that the furor has subsided, it is possible to detect a few sane arguments here and there...