Word: detective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left out. The added bits did not help much, but Axtell's colorless glue was a great improvement. Before, the breaks in the glass had been apparent several feet away; last week, with the urn again on exhibition in the British Museum, it took a sharp eye to detect the breaks...
...virtually eliminated tracking error. But the total distortion normally created by tracking error is less than the distortion of most amplifiers, so that tracking error is not heard except on the very fine machines. The fault Victor is correcting in its "quality zone" is therefore one few listeners can detect...
This has been a constant source of astonishmen to Bunnie Hutchers. They never understood what strange enchantment drew people to Eliot and Lowell, and they never could detect the Leverett halitosis that seemed to drive freshmen away in flocks...
Yale's late William Lyon Phelps had only one reservation about his friend President Angell. "There should be some dullness in every college president," Phelps once remarked. "Knowing Angell intimately, I have never been able to detect even a shadow...
Connecticut troopers, who pride themselves on their scientific methods of crime detection, had set a futuristic ambush for the criminally hasty. Using camouflaged radar, the Nutmeg finest can now detect a 45-plus speed even in the softest purring Cadillac...