Word: detective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many thousand admirers were quite ready to concede that he must "use his vast store of knowledge on innumerable topics with amazing facility," and that he was, as advertised, "WISE, WHIMSICAL, EDUCATIONAL, HELPFUL," there were some who wondered whether his all-embracing wisdom did not permit him to detect the offense proffered to his personal dignity and to his cloth by the ill taste of that circus-barker advertisement...
...determine the matter would be to weigh small objects, observing whether variations in their weight occur exactly as, or shortly after, the sun or moon passes over them. The weight variations are infinitesimal. To detect them would require fabulously sensitive scales. But could ic be done, Science would have a check on Einstein far more clean-cut and conclusive than ether-drift experiments and eclipse observations...
...STUDY OF WAR?Admiral Sir Reginald Custance ? Houghton, Mifflin ($3.50). We detect in this book a "sea dog" barking at civilian interference in the conduct of naval affairs. (The book is more a study of naval than military warfare.) It is almost a direct protest against the confusion which the civilian injects into the military aims of warfare...
...More than 90 per cent of honor violations are reported by members of the faculty. If students do not report violations and only faculty members do, then why should not faculty members do, then why should not faculty members decide the punishment of offenders? Why should the older men detect the infractions and then hand culprits over to students to mete out the penalty? A very considerable amount of time is required of undergraduates to dispose of persons who are detected by members of the faculty. If there is to be an Honor System it should be carried on wholly...
...past week provided a cross word puzzle of great difficulty to those numerous folk who attempt to detect tendencies in business "early in the day." Stocks faltered, bonds firmed, sterling rose, iron and steel contracted and dealers hesitated to place anything but small orders. Anyone who wishes to deduce any consistent conclusion from these happenings is welcome...