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...Stooge Watson complimented Detective Holmes for a shrewd guess, Holmes pro tested: "No, no, I never guess. It is a shocking habit, destructive of the logical faculty. ... I could only say what was the balance of probability." Detective Holmes, said Mathematician Darwin, was using the real scientific method. Another tidbit of popular science disclosed at the meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: B. A. A. S. | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...Boston University's menu was listed a tidbit called Private Life of the Greeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Bottles | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

This extraordinary hearsay testimony was but one tidbit enlivening a civil suit which opened in San Francisco fortnight ago and which, because for their own reasons local newspapers did not care to mention it, was just coming to Californian ears last week. What interested Californians most was the identity of the suit's chief defendant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fleishhacker Freres | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...domestic servants-many of whom have been enrolled willingly or otherwise in various Nazi organizations by such agents as Langen. The organization of domestic servants is so closely supervised that the British Foreign Office has warned its members not to engage German servants who might pick up some delicate tidbit of information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ebbutt, Langen, Putzy | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...after first-night clumsiness, the technicians manage to get the inserted scraps of hilarious movies running right, and if nothing funnier comes along, this frivolous little tidbit, should do well enough...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/7/1936 | See Source »

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