Word: implement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winter of 1927, with the approaching promotion of the late Director to the rank of emeritus, it was felt that the time had come when modernization of the Museum, and its rearrangement into the still greater teaching implement, which the Division had long deserved, should at last be undertaken. Dr. S. K. Lothrop '15, who has done distinguished scientific work and was in the employ of the American Museum in New York, was invited to succeed, and he accepted the position. In the spring of last year, after having had an opportunity of estimating the condition of the Museum...
Seeking explanations of this happy situation, steelmen considered: 1) new automobile models; 2) Ford Motor Co. expansion; 3) record farm implement business; 4) purchase of 65,000 tons of rails for Northern Pacific, Great Northern, etc.; 5) active building construction, particularly in New York...
...broad goose quill is the favorite writing implement of Paul von Hindenburg, President of the German Republic. Last week he wielded it for the second time in a twelvemonth to enforce national political unity...
...Cross was originally a catcher. Shifted to third, he took his mitt with him. With this hamlike implement he was able to stop so many balls that the rule makers made a rule: "The catcher or the first baseman may wear a glove or mitt of any size, shape or weight. Every other player is restricted to the use of a glove or mitt weighing not over ten ounces and measuring not over 14 inches around the palm." tin the house where President McKinley died was born (20 years earlier) Devereux Milburn...
...physicians could make bacteria sick unto death, they would have one more implement in their armentarium of cures. Bacteriophagy has proved effective against some two dozen bacterial species...