Word: detective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eclipses Chaffee elaborated, produce a rapid sunrise-sunset recording on his devices, received from an elevated position. From his sensitive observations he will be able to detect differences in the reflecting power of layers above the atmosphere; particularly the ionosphere, which bounces back short-wave radio frequencies...
Farmers who keep pigs must detect a familiar note in many of the objections to the food saving plan [TIME, Oct. 20]. Hogs always raise hell when you push them away from the trough...
Yeagley's next problem was to find some physical force-something that pigeons might be able to detect-related to the lines of latitude. This was easy. The effect of the earth's turning varies directly with latitude; objects near the equator are carried daily around the earth's whole circumference, moving at over 1,000 m.p.h. Objects near the poles are carried around more slowly in smaller, tighter circles. The direction and variation of this circling can be felt by various man-made instruments, such as the gyrocompass. Why shouldn't pigeons feel...
When A.E.C. experts hastily examined the body (reportedly after it was in the coffin) with their own instruments, they could detect no radiation. Said the A.E.C. report: Earle had never been exposed to radioactive material while working at Oak Ridge. (Other sources reported that he had left there an alcoholic-which might account for his fatal liver disorder.) Nonetheless, A.E.C. was determined to get to the bottom of the story for the sake of its workers' morale and its touchy recruitment problem. But A.E.C.'s chief medical adviser, dispatched to Fort Worth, ran into a major snag...
...comradely service to its readers, Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker last week swiped an idea from the class enemy and for once gave him credit for it. The Worker "noticed" that a "firm of 'liberals' " had offered industrialists advice on "how to detect Communists in industry." Columnist Ted Tinsley submitted his own tips on "How to Detect Capitalists in Your Industry...