Word: detecting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...tongue so affected by some writers. A weak tale is all the worse for being put into queer speech, and a good one is not bettered. It is possible that the two specimens of dialect in the present number are masterpieces, but it would take a keen judgment to detect the fact...
...financial profit is derived for himself or anyone else, is dishonorable under the conditions by which he receives this privilege, and unfair to other Harvard men who are actually desirous of seeing the game but are prevented by lack of seats. Ample precautions are taken by the Association to detect such transactions and all because it is eminently fair that Harvard men be allowed to purchase the desirable seats at the original price...
...hoped others will not find them. Either of these things a man may very easily do if he is willing to put himself in the position of doing by stealth what he knows he could not do openly without being excluded from the Library. Such cases are difficult to detect. They are doubtless oftener seen by other readers than by the officers of the Library...
...necessary roughness of the game may be objectionable to some people, that appears to me to be much less serious than the fact that there is a distinct advantage to be gained from brutality and the evasion of the rules--offenses which, in many instances, the officials cannot detect because they are committed when the players and the ball also are bidden from the eyes of the umpire. For these reasons I have come to believe that the game ought to be radically changed...
...into university athletics which require more strength than they have, and the over-exertion and strain produces permanent physical injury. Dr. Darling believes that systematic medical examination, conjoined with the present strength tests, would aid the trainer in finding out the causes for "staleness" among athletes, might detect its approach in time to prevent it; and would, moreover, detect among men in athletics any organic weaknesses, which might make severe effort injurious. Just what would be the relation between the proposed system of medical examinations, on the one hand, and the strength test and the professional trainer on the other...