Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...construction of the organization as a peace or war-time instrument...
...older Cambridge institution and it yet lacks certain of the distinctive features of its Cambridge proto-type. It possesses no Dining Hall for instance. The installation of wireless marks another respect in which Cambridge is in advance of Oxford. The latest news is broadcasted from a loud speaking instrument each evening and concerts are also received. Most continental countries can be "picked up" and even American can be heard. Unfortunately America is not "picked up" till after 12 P. M., when all undergraduates have to be in their rooms, but no doubt a special dispensation to sit up late will...
...remaining chapters are devoted to a comprehensive discussion of the effects of the Versailles Treaty; the cupidity of France in particular and the Allies in general; the inefficacy of the League of Nations, which he terms " nothing more than a servile instrument of the victors "; the futile endeavors of the endless chain of conferences that followed the armistice in their efforts to reconstruct a war-stricken Europe. Germany is represented as having been dispossessed of intrinsic possessions-territory that had belonged to her for hundreds of years. He says that her economic life has been deliberately ruined...
...Katz asserts that in at least half of all cases of blindness, including the congenitally blind, the light perception nerves are intact, and that his operation will make it possible for all such to see. He is also working on an instrument called an " optophone " by which light will be transformed into sound, for the benefit of the blind in whom the light nerves are dead. The professor is a director of a hospital for 300 patients, supported by the Soviet government, but is handicapped by lack of funds, equipment and personnel. His work is done in poverty and hardship...
...Cruft High Tension Laboratory. He pointed out that this was essential in securing the maximum of sound without sacrificing clearness. He then diagrammed the various methods of setting up a set by which one can increase the intensity of sound without being troubled by excessive sputtering from the instruments. Mr. Dallin discovered in particular the relative disadvantages of the regenerative, crystal, and reflex receiving outfits, favoring the crystal detector as the best receiver of music. In speaking of the possible strength to which such sets can be developed, he mentioned the fact that Great Britain built a 19-stage regenerative...