Word: detectives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every case of advanced colored T. B. there are five minimal (early) cases. But minimal cases are hard to detect, and most doctors pay them no mind. Without "mass X-raying of entire communities," said Dr. Peyton Fortine Anderson of Manhattan, it is impossible to nip T. B. in the bud. Modern equipment will make such detective work practicable...
Purpose of the grant: to start 1,200 healthy women volunteers on a five-year course of free, thorough, semiannual pelvic examinations, to detect any signs of early cancer of the uterus...
...does not take supernatural intuition to detect him. He answers questions like a robot, not thinking for himself, but speaking words put into his mouth. He uses cliches like the "psychology of the business man"--Wolff's contribution to Economics A--until the grader, coming across it for the twentieth time, cannot help but see its origin. And cannot help but grade accordingly...
History I in a statement last night emphasized its policy of "discounting loose generalizations and vague formulae." In an attack on canned answers the statement said, "Pre-digested material, steadily recurring in a set of blue-books, is not difficult to detect, and a deliberate effort to deal with it will be made...
...greatest educational system in all history equip the American people to detect [these] ancient fallacies? . . . Why have so many educators been so easily persuaded to chase butterflies that will take all education as we have known it in America into oblivion? . . . To conclude . . . I think there is a basis for hope. . .. I think it is in the idea of noblesse oblige...