Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock. Reservations may be made at $2.00 each, except for the classes of 1935 and after, who will be admitted without charge. The principal speaker will be Mason Rogers, of the Dewey and Almy Chemical Company, whose chosen title is "Up in the Air--Exploring the Stratosphere with Instrument Carrying Balloons." Charles F. Brooks '11, Director of the Blue Hill Observatory, will speak on the meteorological aspect of such experiments, K. O. Lange will explain and demonstrate the radio meteorograph, and A. E. Bent will talk on radio. Other speakers will include Robert Ridgway, prominent civil engineer of New York...
...between the bridge and the roots of the upper teeth: its contour by following the curve of the nasal bone. To get the fullness of the cheeks he held a pencil from the cheekbone down to the jawbone and allowed a little for normal rounding. He used the same instrument to determine the set of the eyes, holding it slantwise from the eye socket to the cheekbone. (If you do this to yourself, you will find it leaves just enough room for the eyelashes to brush against the pencil...
...News requesting that a conference be held on "The Relation of Beauty to Human Behavior." The New York Times'?, gnomish, imaginative Science Writer William L. ("Bill") Laurence outdid himself by coining a word, "macroscope" (opposite of microscope) by which he imagined the 72 combined brains focused as one instrument upon Man and the Universe. Platoons of newshawks backed stammering notables into corners, pressed them for one-syllable explanations of profundities expounded from the platform...
...Camp Transparent Woman is not a robot in the sense of having movable parts, nor does any fluid circulate in her veins and arteries. Her virtue as an educational instrument is that each organ may be separately illuminated for the study of minute details. For this purpose the figure is equipped with 20 pairs of lamps. Since these are of only four volts each, the exhibit has its own motor-generator. No more than a few organs are lighted at one time, to avoid overheating...
...Schilling, on & off relief, coached small Stanwurt until the youngster could play a man-sized repertoire without fatigue to his peewee chest, throat, lips, cheeks. In December Stanwurt played the euphonium at a policemen's entertainment in Norfolk City Auditorium. Then he graduated to the biggest wind instrument of all, the Sousaphone (see cut). From H. N. White Co. in Cleveland, Father von Schilling obtained a King Giant Sousaphone with a 28-in. gold bell and the standard-sized mouthpiece. The Sousaphone was mounted on a rack so that Stanwurt could crawl into it, huff & puff, while his father...