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Word: instrument (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week was Dr. Gault's Teletactor. An imperfect one was in use for several years at a school for the blind in Chicago. But three weeks ago Dr. Gault completed his new Teletactor, an entirely rebuilt instrument which has greater power, greater sensitivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Teletactor | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...Gault admitted that his instrument is not now intended to take the place of lip-reading?probably, he said, it never will. Says he: "For every 100 words that are recognized by the method of lipreading alone, 120 are recognized in what I call lip-touch-reading or in the condition of dual stimulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Teletactor | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...this station the new Harvard 60-inch reflector telescope, the largest astronomical instrument in the East, will be the most important part of the equipment; but five or six of the Observatory's other photographic telescopes will also be moved from Cambridge to the country. Four other photographic telescopes and the visual telescopes will be retained and operated at the present Cambridge headquarters on Observatory Hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD TO BUILD NEW ASTRONOMICAL STATION NEXT YEAR | 10/29/1931 | See Source »

Matter of fact, Statesman Stimson was so upset about China & Japan and whether they were resorting to war as an instrument of national policy or just fighting, that he did not go out to lunch. Beaming Negroes brought steaming trays. Without leaving his desk, the Secretary munched with his advisers, including U. S. Ambassador to Japan William Cameron Forbes, in Washington on vacation. Alarmingly the New York Herald Tribune, chief Administration newsorgan, reported: "The situation in Manchuria holds the major attention of the State Department. . . . Open warfare between China and Japan would present a more delicate international problem for this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: War! | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

Commencing its 124th year, the Pierian Sodality of 1808 will open the season tonight with a full orchestra rehearsal at 7.30 o'clock in Paine Hall. The orchestra, which includes every instrument used in symphonic orchestration, consists of 30 to 35 men, and is conducted by G. Wallace Woodworth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIERIAN SODALITY TO START YEAR TONIGHT | 10/13/1931 | See Source »

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