Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Years of dental history were sketched colorfully by Yale's Physiologist Howard Wilcox Haggard, able popularizer. The first dentists were mountebanks who probably snatched purses on the side. All they knew was how to pull teeth, open gumboils. For extractions they used a fearsome instrument called "the pelican," precursor of the Stillson wrench. It always got the offending tooth usually accompanied by one on each side and one above. To keep teeth healthy the 16th Century dentist advised eating a mouse once a month, fumigating the mouth with smoke from onion seeds...
...possible, perhaps to India, to break the 5,130 mi. nonstop record held by Great Britain. Through that day and night and the next day the Joseph LeBrix, sturdy but slow, plodded across the Atlantic. Storms battered her. but visibility meant little to her pilots; they were flying by instrument and by radio. On the second evening they swooped low-over Le Bourget (nine minutes behind Lindbergh's time), dropped messages to their wives who. waving and shrieking hysterically, could plainly see their men's faces. Codos & Rossi" flew on through the night and the third day, across...
...Soviet Embassy in London last week seven states which border Russia signed a unique pact against aggression. Years ago nearly all nations signed the Briand-Kellogg Pact "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy"-but that defines nothing, least of all aggression, the primary act of war. For the first time in history aggression was defined in a binding treaty last week when Russia signed the pact with Poland, Rumania, Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, Estonia and Latvia...
...field it is doing what our churches used to do. Regret it as we may . . . the churches . . . have lost their cultural emanation and social discipline which was so effective and so dominant in our earlier days. In the country the school is their legitimate successor. ... It is a social instrument...
Tubaman Bell deftly shifted his instrument about this week, blew first on one mouthpiece and then on the other, getting a four-octave range as against the two and a half octaves possible on a normal tuba. Two tubamen can play on Bell's instrument at the same time but they would have to be ambidextrous to avoid interference on the single set of valves...