Word: polygrapher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Devine gives his tests to people he recommends for jobs as well as to job applicants sent to him by companies. He tells each person how the lie detector (polygraph) works and that they can leave at any time during the questioning. Then he asks such questions as "Have you ever taken as much as $10 from a store?", "Have you ever stolen from your employer?" or, wary of the absentee problem among females applying for jobs, "Are you pregnant?" Devine and his partner Clayton Evans, 25, also give each other monthly lie detector tests...