Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...useful for night observations, as it has been for over a year in the day time, the radio balloon meteorograph becomes the best instrument for securing routine data of temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure in the upper air. With an upper ceiling of 15 to 20 miles, the free balloon reaches much greater heights than weather airplanes. Its readings are transmitted automatically by short wave radio to a receiver on the ground, where the conditions are recorded on a revolving drum...
...operations, explained Dr. Freeman, this instrument "is inserted in the anteromedial [front and centre] direction to a depth of four centimetres below the surface of the cortex. The stylet is pressed in, forming a loop near the distal end of the instrument. The leucotome is rotated through one complete circle, cutting a sphere or core of white matter in the pre-frontal area about ten millimetres in diameter. The stylet is withdrawn a few millimetres thus replacing the loop within the cannula. A second core is cut at a depth of three centimetres and a third at two centimetres...
...Debye has done powerful work on the conduction of electricity by salt solutions, the electrical properties of insulators, the heat capacities of solids, the atomic architecture of molecules. He was one of four men who turned the crystal diffraction grating invented by Max von Laue into a precise instrument which, by combing X-rays through the atomic lattice in the crystal, determines the composition of a mixture as exactly as by chemical analysis. In Pittsburgh last September Chemist Debye pointed out to the American Chemical Society that water has a quasi-crystalline structure, therefore resembles a diamond more closely...
Having taken the wheel of a Phantom III, in which he was shortly to do 93 m.p.h., Lord Cottenham continued, "I shrugged myself more comfortably into position behind the wheel and cast about little searching glances under the scuttle, as one does when familiarizing oneself with the instrument layout and control locations of a new model. . . . I saw the red telltale bulb glow on the ignition switchboard. . . . The big engine had hesitated- 'hunted' we call it-for a second or two, whether because my cuff had caught the throttle lever and sharply shut it or whether, as Colonel...
...consumed somehow. Their new "Irish-American" product is 25% pot-still Irish, 20 years old; 75% one-year-old, light-bodied Kentucky straight. Irish-American promotion calls it "not unlike the strains of a symphony in which one may easily recognize the tones of more than one instrument, although all are joined harmoniously in the richness of modulated music." Last week 100,000 gals. were ready for U. S. distribution at $1.44 per pint...