Word: apparatus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Negro voter-registration rate is the South's lowest−6.7%. Last week Section 244 was as dead as slavery. By a majority vote of 130,832 to 49,330 or almost three to one, Mississippians overwhelmingly approved a new voting law that eliminates virtually the whole artful apparatus of legalisms that has successfully disfranchised the Negroes in their state for nearly a century−including the requirements that a voter be of "good moral character" and be able to define good citizenship. Though Mississippians must still pay a $2 state poll tax and show minimal literacy to qualify...
...program for the analyzer. The analyzer has been "taught" to read that language and recognize normal and abnormal noises in the functioning of specific engine parts. All a mechanic has to do is hold the analyzer's microphone near a roaring engine. In seconds, the little apparatus will flash a light indicating "no failure" or if there is trouble, signal its location...
Built on the prairies of Montana by the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency, the $10 million detection facility will go into full operation this fall. Spread out in a giant circle 125 miles in diameter near Miles City, the apparatus consists of 525 seismometers buried 200 ft. deep. They are arranged in 21 smaller circles, each 41 miles in diameter and each as sensitive as the best seismic array the U.S. has built to date...
...Pigs project "seemed to move mysteriously and inexorably toward execution without either the President's being able to obtain a firm grip on it or reverse it." Still, whatever weaknesses there may have been -or may remain-in government decisionmaking, there seems nothing wrong with the apparatus that firm leadership at the top cannot cure. The trouble at the time, both chroniclers argue, was the President's newness. He had been in office only twelve weeks and, writes Sorensen: "He did not fully know the strengths and weaknesses of his various advisers. He had not yet geared...
...chemist in England, who hired him as an assistant and whisked him off to the Continent on a Grand Tour that lasted 18 months and introduced the blacksmith's boy to many of the greatest intellects of the era. Back in England, Davy established Faraday as superintendent of apparatus in the laboratory of the Royal Institution...