Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gratitude as an authentic Hero of Science. What hundreds of researchers had worked toward since dentistry began, what millions of dentists and their patients had ardently desired, Dr. Hartman had achieved. After 20 years of experiment he had destroyed the threat of the world's most dreaded torture instrument, the dentist's drill, made painless dentistry at last a fact...
...most influential men in history. He carefully recapitulates the arguments that hold this influence has been pernicious, admits that ''it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that . . . Rousseau has represented a backward movement in civilisation." Rousseau's influence "tended to depreciate the value of the mighty instrument of reason." By casting off restraints on emotion, it has led to an "unwholesome divorce between the extravagancies of feeling and the limitations of life." Most importantly, it has "consecrated prejudice under the sacred names of Nature and instinct." Yet, unlike the Humanists, who have held Rousseau responsible for most...
...exercised this tremendous influence was nervous, sentimental, irresponsible, ill. Finding Rousseau's Confessions unreliable, Ellis gains more enlightenment from the 20 volumes of his correspondence, discovers the secret of his genius in the "swiftness and sincerity" of his actions and reactions. Rousseau was like "an exquisite instrument, giving forth a music which responds to the varying emotions of the hand that strikes it." Thus the intellectual conflicts of his time moved him as other men are moved by pain or fear, compelled him to state simple, fundamental truths, although he suffered the torments of the damned in doing...
...first John Jacob Astor. Theobald Boehm, a Bavarian court musician, made the first metal flute in 1847. Professor Dayton Clarence Miller, flute-playing physicist at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, was first to experiment with platinum, proving that the denser the metal, the better the instrument's tone...
...density. But Mr. Barrere plays any flute so expertly, transmits so much personal charm to his audience, that those who heard him last week, tootling away between two potted palms in a salon at Sherry's, wondered whether they were being impressed by the player or the instrument. Case for the platinum flute would have been more convincing if Barrere had given his listeners a chance to hear the silver and the gold flutes again. But scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories swore that the platinum one was best, said that Barrere had blown all three instruments for them, sounding...