Word: apparatuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...technical staff under the direction of Charles Oliphant, Technical Director and Gordon P. McCouch, Technical Engineer and designer of the sending apparatus, will experiment this summer with new methods of broadcasting...
...must expect that as soon as stability is reached on the Western Front the bulk of that hideous apparatus of aggression . . . will be turned upon us. ... We are ready to face...
...beginning to extend an insidious domination over the hospital, and second, that as its first operator Harvard has chosen a German refugee, from the medical school. It is plain that Harvard wishes to appoint these technicians itself in order to insure expert handling of the delicate and costly apparatus, and also to give its young roentgenologists practical experience before placing them permanently...
Ninety years later a military engineer in a primitive diving apparatus descended to the lake floor, described what he had seen in glowing terms: "There were pegs veined so darkly they seemed of ebony ... a pavement of bricks three palms each way, red as carmine, and also enameling. . . ." Still other grapplings yielded slabs of terra cotta, mosaics and porphyry, but the vessels themselves remained stuck in the ooze. In 1928 Mussolini, interested as always in reviving the spirit of the ancient Roman conquerors, brushed aside all the piecemeal methods of salvaging theretofore used and imperiously ordered the lake drained...
...party is preparing over $4,000 worth of equipment which will measure the ionosphere continuously from September 1, a month before the eclipse, to October 30, a month after it. Special apparatus will be used during the actual moments of the eclipse for recording the ionospheric changes...