Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attached a small leather-covered cylinder. When suspended over gold-bearing ground, the indicator was supposed to vibrate. Explained Septuagenarian Haas: "I call it a mineral vibrator. . . . The principle on which it works is affinity with affinity. I have to have a gold affinity to detect gold. . . . My instrument is loaded with affinity. ... I tune in with my gold vibrator. It is like a radio. You dial until you get a certain station. . . . When I take it in my hands I am dialed in for gold...
...Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History financed the planetarium building by persuading RFC to take $650,000 in Planetarium Authority bonds in return for a loan, to be paid off by millions of 25? admissions. But the RFC would not advance funds for a foreign-bought instrument. That problem was solved, to Mr. Davison's surprise and delight, when he was handed a check for $150,000 by Bachelor-Banker Hayden, who had been religiously stirred by a planetarium performance in Chicago (TIME...
Cocktails & Sanctions. Ever since President Woodrow Wilson's ideals congealed into the League of Nations its best friends have rated it brittle. Fearing their cherished instrument would snap like an icicle if used against a Great Power, League statesmen have pussyfooted for 15 long years. They let Poland conquer a good third of Lithuania and seize its then capital Vilna, which Poland still holds. They let Japan master four rich Chinese provinces. No sanctions were imposed to stop bloodshed between Bolivia and Paraguay. Though the League's own charter or Covenant is part of the Treaty of Versailles...
...World Court announced the resignation from its bench this week of ailing Judge Frank Billings ("Nervous Nellie") Kellogg who was U. S. Secretary of State when he and the late great Aristide Briand persuaded virtually every nation in the world to underwrite their Peace Pact renouncing war "as an instrument of national policy...
Technically, a machine tool is a power-driven, non-portable instrument that removes metal in the form of chips. One of the indices of machine tool efficiency is the amount of metal chipped per minute. Up to 1900, with old-fashioned carbon steel tools, about one-quarter of a pound of metal could be cut in 60 seconds. Today, using tools tipped with cemented carbides, the chips fall at the rate of 17 lb. per minute. Carbides are crystalline substances so hard that they will machine glass...