Word: detective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pained by loudness until the sound is about ten trillion times as intense as a whisper at the threshold of hearing. Thus it is not very sensitive to small intensity changes. The decibel is intended to represent roughly the smallest intensity change which the ear can detect...
...epic novelist, certainly no apologist for the rich, Harvey O'Connor tells most of the Guggenheim saga in an objective, critically-cool prose. But occasionally readers may detect a slightly flabbergasted note of left-wing awe as he recounts how the seven sons of Jewish immigrant Meyer Guggenheim of Philadelphia made the family the second or third richest in the U. S., comparable in the scope of its clannish money-making only to the Rothschilds. Starting in 1847 as a pack peddler of household knickknacks along the muddy roads outside Philadelphia, vigorous, good-humored Meyer Guggenheim acquired a peddler...
Saratoga was practically complete when its star died last month of cerebral edema. For the few remaining sequences, mostly in the middle of the picture, director Jack Conway used longshots of a double so adroitly that cinemaddicts are not likely to detect Miss Harlow's absence. Good shots: the flamingos at Miami's Hialeah Park; Duke Bradley's assistant (Cliff Edwards) singing a race-track ballad "The Horse with the Dreamy Eyes," in a crowded car on the track special from Maryland; Bradley making book...
...Sigmund Spaeth ("Doctor" because he wrote a thesis on Milton's Knowledge of Music) advertises himself as "writer, broadcaster, lecturer, composer, arranger, general showman and entertainer." But he is best known as "The Tune Detective," points out in books and on the radio the similarity between I'm Always Chasing Rainbows and Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu, who can detect in Yes, We Have No Bananas elements of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean, I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls and Seeing Nellie Home...
...rapping of knuckles echoed through the land. Chief political officers in the Kiev, Volga and Caucasus districts were reprimanded for "political blindness and carelessness" in failing to detect intriguers in their midst. Two unnamed spies of a "certain foreign intelligence service" were arrested. The West Siberian Geological Trust, ordered to explore for oil in the Kuznetsk Basin in 1935, discovered that a number of their employes had spent 1,300,000 rubles (about $260,000) on drilling two wells where there was obviously not a chance of finding oil. Eleven more railway wreckers, said to be working for Japan, were...