Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paterson, N. J, seven young engineering students?George Duggan, Henry Walstenholme, Richard Jenkinson, Julian and Edward Yzewyn, Tice Van Dyk and Frederick Bomelyn?have been improving their summer evenings by prowling along the shores of the Passaic River with a dip needle, the instrument used to locate subsurface metals. Last week, under a bridge, the needle dipped strenuously. The prospectors seized shovels, dug, ejaculated, waved their shovels in muddy triumph. Their buried treasure was not a cache of pirate bullion, or a mastodon's skull, but an 18-foot iron hull designed to run under water; a submarine of primitive...
Cannot shake off a Presbyterian feeling about tournament golf? that the winner is predestined, an instrument of fate...
...Chicago Tribune, not squeamish, carried an advertising sketch of a "tweaker." Superficially this instrument resembles a pair of scissors between the points and handles of which four flexible strands are strung and intertwined in curious fashion...
...aristocracy dressed with the most rigid economy, who wore on her naked breast a gold cross. The symbol of sacrifice and sorrow joined with the crudest form of mundanity; the emblem of redemption resting on perfumed flesh; the blessed, mortal bed of Christ put in contrast with an instrument of the most lascivious seduction...
...whisper in a hurricane. Star heat is best studied at altitudes where Earth's atmosphere is rare. To rare-aired Mount Wilson, therefore, went Dr. Abbot, where he can introduce starlight reflected from the 100-inch Carnegie Institute sky-reflector into his newest and finest radiometer-an instrument so delicate that a part of it is constructed of flies' wings; an instrument ten times as sensitive as Dr. Abbot's last radiometer, with which, "if the Earth were flat and the atmosphere perfectly transparent, it would have been possible to have measured in California the heat...