Word: detectives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the boat had told a story of heard seeing a it go buoy 'puff, going puff, against puff,' the tide, smelled sulphur. Then the devil had come out of the smokestack ! "On these early boats, three white mice were members of every crew - to detect gas. When they keeled over it was time to come...
...body is a cunningly devised mechanism to secure happiness underlies this philosophy," continued Dr. Jacks. "Its supporters also believe that the social system is merely a more extensive and complicated contrivance for the mass production of that commodity, happiness. At no point of my bodily structure, however, can I detect the slightest evidence that it was placed there for happiness, but rather to bear heavy burdens and perform irksome operations. Happiness hunting is not worthy of man or woman, and still less of civilization...
...past week was accompanied by rumblings and uncertainty in both Congress and the stock market, and by an unusually large number of annual corporation statements covering the year 1923. Yet, even in the latter, it is difficult to detect any real consistency. While Studebaker and American Locomotive show unusual if not record prosperity, it has been very lugubrious news that has come from Central Leather and Kelly-Springfield. Business is undeniably spotty; very prosperous in some directions, quite the reverse in others. Moreover, in many industries, notably the coppers, it all depends upon which companies one looks...
...with a thousand tufts and plumes in disorderly parade. To discover a common tilt to the hat or characteristic gait in marching is impossible. The stories in this collection have been conceived and penned in a variety of moods, and only the reviewer, clutching at straws, could pretend to detect a motive proper to the entire company. A certain prosaic literalness and timorous aversion from the loftier strains of prose perhaps comes nearer than any other quality to providing a measure for the book as a whole; at best, it is little above mediocrity. There is a ghost story...
...view of the fact that the H. A. A. authorities are making especial efforts to detect all cases of the illegal transfer of tickets, each ticket will he carefully examined, and its owner identified before admission is granted to the Stadium...