Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scientists in the General Electric Co. laboratories have invented an instrument to register the presence of as little as one part of mercury in 20,000,000 parts of atmosphere. Before the poison is detected by symptoms of illness in drooping employes, a coating of yellow sulphide on a strip of paper gives the signal by turning black (the result of contact between selenium sulphide and mercury). The degree of blackness is photographed by shining a light through the strip of yellow sulphide. If the sulphide has turned dark, less light will penetrate; if black, no light will penetrate. This...
...casualty-pro-ducer in war, Soldier Fries explained, because its victims require from two to three persons each to care for them, "while statistics show that one man can dispose of two fatal casualties. . . . Wounded men are many times more a burden than the dead. Gas is the only instrument in which the power of the blow can be regulated...
These articles asserted that ratification of the treaty by Panama would be equivalent to the surrender of her sovereign rights, and they pointed out that Panama, as a member of the League of Nations, would be compelled to file the instrument at Geneva and that the League would then "abrogate...
...actors. Accordingly Her First Affaire falls short of perfection by only one actor. In its cast of five is Aline MacMahon whose performances in Spread Eagle and Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon satisfied many a theatregoer that her tall, angular person is an almost ideal instrument for fateful, tragic roles. Here, however, she performs commendably as the knowing wife of a popular literatus who is beset by a flapper openly intent upon seducing him into being the victim of her first affaire. Wisely, the wife allows the little one to get just near enough...
...greybeards; rattled questions about London slums and busses; missed his dinner; clapped at the theatre; consoled Mrs. Walker for losing her largest trunk. He startled his Manhattan subordinates by calling up on the radiophone to say, "Hello, how is everybody over there?" Mrs. Walker took her turn at the instrument and said. "Is everybody at home all right...