Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...litter and restored to its owners, Dr. E. S. Lain and Dr. M. M. Roland. The tube contained a grain of radium, worth $4,000; had been thrown away by a careless nurse and located approximately in the dump heap by use of a mineralogist's divining instrument for radioactive substances. During the five-day hunt, a hog whose headquarters were at the dump ground was kept under observation...
...Princess Troubetzkoy and Gilbert Emery, who seem to have loaned it little except their names. To be sure, there is a professional smoothness about the book of the play, an assurance which borders on insouciance; and the air of boredom with which the authors play on the easily tuned instrument of the public galls even the thick-skinned among Boston playgoers. There is an assumption that the playwrights know what the public swallows alive and buys wholesale, a dangerous assumption...
...their practice last Monday night, the Plerian Sodality inaugurated their second season with G. S. Stanton '27 as conductor. Twenty-one men who represent talent on eight types of instrument, have been added to the ranks of the musicians this fall, and when the drummers have been released from active duty in the band, the orchestral organization will be complete...
...university has no such instrument as a tariff, with which to foster young domestic industries, but it is perhaps as well that it has not. For debating is not to be revived by the exclusion of foreign samples. The solution lies rather in a change of attitude, and if there be those to suggest the Gallic barbarian listening before the tribune of the Roman senators, we need not in our pride be overly distressed...
Wamoscher of Berlin described the micromanipulator, precision instrument that can operate on objects of microscopic size 1/1000 millimeter (about 1/250,000 in.) in diameter...