Word: detectives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...performance or the opera itself. It is hardly more than a chamber opera, and in the cavernous wastelands of the Boston Opera House, the small mass of sound produced was pretty well lost. It was hard enough for most of the paying customers to hear the artists, let alone detect any difference subtler than that between a pianissimo and a fortissimo...
...transparent, but this is a partial illusion. Man's most useful senses (sight and hearing) are designed to respond to waves (light and sound) which the air allows to pass. Many other waves and speeding particles from space are stopped or weakened by the atmosphere. To detect these mysterious travelers, scientists must rocket their instruments above the "opaque...
After a few years in Washington, most politicians can detect the faint hiss of escaping gossip the way bird dogs can hear whistles pitched too high for the human ear. Last week, as Harry Truman set out on his 17-day tour of the West, hundreds of the initiated swore they could hear tongues wagging across the capital in salvos like a 21-gun salute. The reason: three days before starting out, the President had notified Democratic National Committee Chairman J. Howard McGrath (who had planned the trip) that he and his professional politicos could not come along...
...least to his own satisfaction. It covers everything from contract negotiations to plans for the "emergency housing for the new workers you'll need." Sample questions: "What measures could you take to protect your personnel during work hours in an air attack? What provisions have been made to detect the existence of subversive elements on your payroll...
...feel that I have had adequate opportunity to examine and learn the attitudes of the various officials conducting the examinations in the University. Mr. Stanley Leonard has been my immediate supervisor at at least half of the examinations at which I have officiated, and as far as I could detect, his attitude at all times was far from misanthropic...