Word: detector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Informed of the identity of the student last night, the Liberal Union Executive Board decided to press charges against him unless he returns the money missing from previous shows or agrees to undergo lie-detector and other examinations to clear himself of the previous thefts. The suspect is not a member of the Liberal Union...
...fire engine made to scale from the famed La-France, with an extendible ladder and a hose that shoots a 20-ft. stream of water ($15.95). But the ultimate in realism was achieved by Chicago's Marlin Electric Co. It has a 4-lb., battery-powered toy lie detector, about the size of a small table radio...
...television-detector van began prowling London's streets last week. It was beginning a search for 150,000 TV sets whose owners have not paid their annual license fee of ?2 ($5.60) to the General Post Office. Since the van can detect a set only when it is turned on-and if it happens to be within a 100-ft. radius of the truck-illicit televiewers had little reason to tremble in their boots...
Last summer's expedition, financed by the National Geographic Society, carried in a planeload of equipment and set out to find the evidence. Attempts to find fragments of nickel-iron from the meteorite were unsuccessful. The expedition's mine detectors (lent by the U.S. Army) were scarcely more useful: they gave too many indications, squealed excitedly whenever they were brought near an ordinary granite boulder. Apparently, said Geologist Meen, the granite of the region contains enough magnetic iron ore to drive a mine detector wild...
Since Guy Coolen, ex-husband of the murdered Shirley Coolen, has been exonerated of the crime by a lie detector test, the police have only one suspect left...