Word: detective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York, during which they are thoroughly rinsed of any wrong ideas they may have had about Coke. Then they move along the assembly line to various U.S. plants, where they are filled brimful with Coca-Cola lore (sample subjects: old containers, scrap material, disposal of; bad gas, how to detect; bottles foaming on machines, common causes and remedies...
...Money. The results were startling. His serial number (which was printed on separately and had closed instead of open 45) was the only easily identifiable imperfection. Many counterfeiters soak their money in coffee and crumple it, to make it look older and its discrepancies harder to detect. Hugo's money looked-and felt-so much like the real thing that he always passed it in new, crisp, unwrinkled bills...
Interchangeable Pronouns. After the hail of postwar novels with homosexual themes (The Fall of Valor, Other Voices, Other Rooms, The City and the Pillar), most U.S. readers will hardly need New Directions' radar to detect the trend; but with sophomoric emphasis N.D. XI detects it anyhow in half a dozen inverted short stories and prose fragments. The queen of the queerer pieces is a collection of excerpts from Parisian Jean Genet's lushly symbolic novel, Our Lady of Flowers (explains Editor Laughlin in an introductory note: "Genet uses the pronouns more or less interchangeably...
...moral point involved, simply wondered why Dr. Sander had committed the indiscretion of jotting his action on the record. County Medical Referee Robert E. Biron explained that it was the only clue to Dr. Sander's irregularity.: "Had he omitted that notation it would have been impossible to detect the cause of death as an air injection...
...market had been a baffling barometer of the state of U.S. industrial health. It had crashed in 1946 on the eve of the greatest boom in U.S. history, tumbled badly again in 1948 when the boom was at its peak. Though the market had not been able to detect a boom, it started out in the early months of 1949 to prove that it could certainly see a slump...