Word: detecting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...difficult to detect a single redeeming feature in the playing of the University eleven on Saturday. With only a week before the game for which the entire season is preparatory, there still remain several fundamentals of football to be learned by the players. After the first two minutes, the team did not pretend to play hard football. Of course the wet ball and the slippery field excused many faults, but the team has overcome these difficulties in other games. The game Saturday showed a reaction, perhaps a slump...
...cement which is serviceable for any length of time. Glass is the only practical substance for Crookes tubes. The great difficulty at present in the application of the cathode photography to surgery lies in the expense of the method. In order to take a photograph of the hand to detect a bullet for instance, or a piece of glass, at least two photographs should be taken-in the obverse and reverse portions of the hand with respect to the sensitive plate. In doing this one is liable to break two tubes, which cost at present ten or twelve dollars apiece...
...harmless selfishness alone were involved in this hiding of books, it might be allowed to pass unnoticed; but the injury it does to the mass of the students is too great to be passively endured. It seems that some decided effort should be made to detect the offenders and make them pay a heavy penalty for their dishonorable abuse of privilege. Students should themselves report any cases that came to their notice to the Library officials Men in whom so little confidence can be placed, are hardly to be reached in any other way than through their fear of severe...
...action should be taken. If any plan can be devised for protecting the libraries and the honest users of them, even though it involve some inconvenience, it should be put in operation. Further, the men who use the libraries should unite for their own protection in an effort to detect those who abuse the privileges given them. It is disagreeable and distasteful advice to offer. We hate to be forced to it. But it seems the last and most forcible way for public opinion to express itself...