Word: detector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. William Moulton Marston, 53, Manhattan psychologist and developer (1915) of the systolic (blood) pressure "Lie Detector"; after long illness; in Rye, N.Y. A man who never underestimated women, Marston wrote a successful comic strip called Wonder Woman (a sexy female counterpart of Superman); once announced that brunettes are more amorous than blondes; averred that in 1,000 years women would be running...
...wishers. But some 5,000 ideas were promising enough to be turned over to the armed services or the OSS. About 150 of these went into actual production; some 600 more are still in the testing stage. Some of the most successful: ¶The Army's portable mine detector, invented by a Miami electrician to help a neighbor find buried pirate gold. ¶A tank-driven mine detonator. ¶ A long-lasting walkie-talkie battery for use in the tropics...
...Atom. The five rings got: samples of uranium, information on radar, the Asdic detector and the VT-proximity fuse. But the Russians did not get what they wanted most: the know-how of the atomic bomb. The reason was simple. Said the report: "There was no one in Canada who had that information...
Trial Marriage. In Minneapolis, C. B. Hanscom refused to lend his lie detector to a young man who explained: "I've got some questions I want to ask her before we get married...
...liars had not yet counterattacked, but no one believed they had really given up. So far, the struggle is a draw: the lie detector's findings are not accepted now (except by mutual agreement) in any court...