Word: detector
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...huge banquet at the Palmer House. The students had no classes Induction Day, but the faculty were at their posts. Visitors were taken through classrooms, laboratories, clinics; were allowed to poke into the University press, oldest (1892) U. S. college printshop; saw Police-Professor August Vollmer's sphygmanometer (lie detector) in the Social Science Building (TIME, May 27). In the Haskell Museum, housing the Oriental Institute's work, upon which much Chicago money is lavished, was exhibited the archaeological reseasch of Professor James Henry Breasted, whose red-bound ancient history many a school must study. Through its local Community Research...
Died. Dr. Albert Schneider, 65, able scientist & criminologist of Portland, Ore.; from cerebral hemorrhage; in Portland. Dr. Schneider devised an apparatus for registering brain reactions known as the lie detector...
Inventor Fessenden, who designed the oscillator detector or "ear" used on the 54, said: "The sinking of the S-4 was more than avoidable. It was criminal." Dr. Fessenden maintained that the destroyer Paulding, which gored the 54, should have been equipped with "ears...
That hoary old motif of musical revue, the lie-detector, reappears in the edition of "Artists and Models" now current at the Majestic, this time in the guise of a mysterious chamber lined with ancient plates, one of which falls whenever a lie is told. It would be interesting to test that room by discussing last night's show inside it. The strong suspicion is that almost every favorable comment would be drowned by the crash of shattering china...
...FALL GUY?In which a small and futile fellow forges suddenly forward into a crook detector and a hero...