Search Details

Word: sleuthing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...schools would no longer be liable to loss of their tax exemptions, the purpose and result of the measure remain the same. The important point is that the state would have the power to say who would teach and what should be taught in private educational institutions. A sleuth in a classroom is a threat to academic freedom whether he is compiling "evidence" against a school or an individual professor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sullivan's Statute | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

...Sleuth Root, though $25 richer, is still puzzled as to what the correct solution is. It appears as if either there is no true answer, or the Herald just isn't telling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacon Resident Finds $1,000,000 | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

...Marcus Bach of the University of Iowa School of Religion calls himself a "religious sleuth." For 15 years (partly financed by a Rockefeller fellowship) he has been investigating the state of Protestantism in the U.S. Published this week is the result: an autobiographical Report to Protestants (Bobbs-Merrill, $3), which is well-timed for this month's big conference of churches at Amsterdam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Good Fences, Good Neighbors? | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...Sleuth Finds Fingerprints...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Book Loses Funds in $200 Thayer Hall Robbery | 5/22/1948 | See Source »

...keep Sleuth Milland precisely equidistant from himself and the killer takes the kind of nerveless skill required to shave two men with one stroke of a two-edged razor-and produces the same excruciating suspense. Author Fearing's book pulled off the trick very neatly, but Scenarist Jonathan Latimer and Director John Farrow have done an even better job of it in the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Previous | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | Next