Word: apparatus
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...wanted to file from Kavalla, but the telegraph official had never seen a cable in English before and his apparatus seemed to date from pre-Edison days. I tried to get back to Salonika by rail, but the train blew up before I got in. I tried to go by bus, but the busses were not running because one of them had smashed up on a mine the day before. The airplane was the only solution, but, although we went to the airfield daily, the plane did not come in until Thursday...
Some half a hundred residents of the Business School's Hamilton Hall gathered to watch what had originally been a policeman's request for "a piece of apparatus" materialize into a full-dress motorcade...
...hospital with his arm braced in a traction apparatus, a staggering total of $126,900 was offered ($100,000 of it by the U.A.W.) for the arrest and conviction of the gunman. Last week every cop, private dick, stool pigeori and neighborhood snoop in Detroit was working overtime, and half the population seemed to have turned amateur detective. But at week's end the assassin was still at large...
...will work at the Institute, in the world's biggest institution for cancer research, showed visiting cancer specialists through the well-equipped laboratories. Said one biologist, who spotted a coffeepot heating over a Bunsen burner: "That's one piece of apparatus we're sure will work." But Dr. Cornelius P. ("Dusty") Rhoads, head of the Institute and of the affiliated Memorial Hospital, was more hopeful. Said he: "No one can predict from what source a major discovery will come. One can predict, however, with absolute certainty, that sound, careful, faithful investigation will justify itself in terms...
...Apparatus carried out its determination is described in the last, galloping pages of Conspirator-a novel that is too much of a sheer thriller to attain real literary stature, but much too brilliantly written to be classed with ordinary whodunits...