Word: apparatuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sympathetic to Labor, dourly commented: "It was of the utmost importance that such a measure should be thoroughly debated, clause by clause, and that it should be made to stand the test of every sort of criticism. . . . Instead of that, the Government, by the wholesale use of the guillotine apparatus, turned Parliament into a gigantic sausage machine. ... It made nonsense of the vital and historic functions of the House of Commons. . . . One can see that it has given the Tories a stronger argument for their case that Labor means to reduce the status of the House to that...
...Hughes radar, like all others, sends out brief bursts of high-frequency radio waves both ahead of the plane and below it. When these echo back from the ground (or from the sea or buildings), a receiving apparatus measures the time the waves take to make the round trip. If any return quickly enough to indicate that an obstacle is within 2,000 ft. from the airplane, a bell rings and a bright light flashes in the cockpit. The pilot can then pull into a climb in time to avoid any "terrain" hidden in the overcast (see diagram...
...apparatus was simple: a galvanized iron washtub with a strong light above it, and a loud electric bell hung inside its rim. Dr. Hall put his mice in the tub in small groups, and watched them for two minutes. The brown mice were slightly more nervous than the black, but also bolder: they ventured more frequently into the middle...
...Icarus apparatus was presumably not a helicopter with revolving wing surfaces but an ornithopter, with flapping wings...
...Radio apparatus on the ground will keep track of every plane. If one falls badly behind schedule, it will be ordered aside into an unoccupied lane before the planes behind it begin treading on its tail...