Word: detective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCrosky, lecturer on Astronomy, showed the television audience the equipment of the Smithsonian Institute which photographs the sky all night long every night. With cameras that can detect a six inch sphere as far away as the moon, they have never detected "anything we don't understand...
...evidence is everywhere the eye lights, the ear listens, the commentator prowls, or the station wagon travels. If there is anything left of the Puritan tradition, it is hard to detect. Perhaps its strongest remaining element is what sociologists call the "work ethic." Executives and businessmen seem to work harder than ever (and certainly harder than the average union members), and so do students, whatever their other diversions. At the same time, thrift is no longer a virtue-it is, in fact, nearly subversive-pleasure is an unashamed good, leisure is the general goal and the subsidized life, from Government...
...Scientists believe that charged particles from the sun induce tiny electric currents in the moon. These, in turn, generate a weak magnetic field which-like the earth's-is probably distorted into a cometlike shape and may even have its own collection of energetic electrons for Luna to detect. The presence of these electrons would be characterized by a peak of radiation every three hours-each time Luna passed through the lunar tail on the antisolar side of the moon...
Bullitt hailed the Court's decision last night, pointing to Fanny Hill's "detect nb'e literary merit and historic interest...
...take. But he has always conceded his spiritual debt to Bob Jones Sr., the fire-and-brimstone preacher who founded the university in 1927, and at 82 is still chairman of the board of trustees with his son, Bob Jones Jr., 54, as president. Those who know both men detect in Graham's simple and passionate sermons the gestures and mannerisms of the old man. Jones Sr. once hailed Graham as a prophet for his time, and in 1948 bestowed upon him a doctorate of humanities-which would mean more if the school, now rich and culturally respectable...