Word: unraveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...educated man runs to fraud," he once said, "while the uneducated person is more given to crimes of brutality and passion. The crime that interests me the most does not interest the public; for me, I love to unravel a really clever fraud...
When crime looms in London there is but one thing to do?report to Scotland Yard. As any reader of the best detective fiction knows, the "C. I. D." (Criminal Investigation Department) will unravel the knottiest mystery in the shortest possible time. In fiction there is usually an amateur on hand to simplify the C. I. D.'s work. In actuality, for many a long year, the master mind of Scotland Yard, the prototype of Sherlock Holmes, a sleuth in no need of amateur assistance, has been Chief Constable Frederick Wensley, a real super-detective credited with solving more murders...
...city editor (W. D. Frazier) is Mr. Fixit for the Columbus, Ohio, Citizen, although most of the complaints are run down by the city hall reporter. To unravel the red tape between the annoyed citizen and the city authorities is the prime duty of every Mr. Fixit...
...there exists another Wittenberg, a Lutheran college founded in 1845 on a rolling hill at the northern side of Springfield, Ohio. To this Wittenberg last week went almost 400 psychologists to unravel with modern skill sleeves of care. The papers that they read and the papers sent by scores of foreign scientists to be read by proxy constituted the first U. S. Symposium of Feelings & Emotions...
While in the monasteries the doctors studied the effects of diet on segregated men, at Sing Sing (New York state prison, Ossining) where men live under similarly "controlled" conditions, Dr. Amos T. Baker has set up a psychiatric clinic to learn the cause of imprisonment. Each day he will unravel the characters of three men to learn 1) their intelligence. 2) vocational possibilities, 3) future outlook on society. Said Warden Lewis E. Lawes of the project: "Some of the men we have here are pretty smart birds, and I expect some occasionally to put one over on the doctor...