Word: apparatuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attackers tried again to take the place by an assault on the southwestern rim of the defense perimeter. Nazi tanks accomplished a small breakthrough. To the desert's awful heat German shock troops added that of flamethrowers, but the answering heat of British artillery exploded the flame-throwing apparatus, stopped the tanks, and squeezed the breakthrough into a small sac. The difference between the futile Italian and the furious British defense of Tobruch was not just a matter of command of the sea. The Italians used fixed artillery, which could fire outwards only, so that after a breakthrough...
With all the full-dress apparatus of storming-dive-bombers, tanks, massed infantry-the Italians and Germans quickly broke through the first line of Tobruch's defenses, seized "a great number" of artillery emplacements and some prisoners. The British withdrew to a second line of defense, stiffened, and claimed to have stopped the assault...
Robert S. Schwab, for Brain Wave Laboratory, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, for the purchase and construction of a suitable cathode ray oscillograph apparatus with one built-in head amplifier and power amplifier projecting on a 4-inch screen and accompanied with a suitable camera with four different speeds of operation, using a standard 35 millimeter negative film...
Fires broke out, spreading a pall of smoke over the city. Worst was the blaze that destroyed the El Monte lumberyard in the business district. Firemen, soldiers and police fought it for six hours, in desperation when apparatus ran short called out an ancient steam pumper that rumbled through the streets, belching a black column from its smokestack. Mexico's tallest skyscraper, a nearly completed, 17-story office building at the corner of the handsome Paseo de la Reforma and the Avenida del Ejido, shook and cracked as the city rocked. A five-story section of glass and facing...
...repertory of badges for police, detectives, sheriffs, coroners, Federal agents. When a story broke Carson simply faked an appropriate document. A tough, impersonating reporter or Carson himself did the rest. The evidence was usually photostated in the office, quietly returned, the forged "writ" destroyed. A dozen sets of wiretapping apparatus supplemented his arsenal...