Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important place for herself in industry before the World War broke out. The story of her twelve years as "employment superintendent" at the Clothcraft Shops in Cleveland is an engrossing study in human relations. Handling those thousands of workers in that plant was like playing an intricate, many-stringed instrument. Mary Gilson lost herself in the task of introducing scientific management in those shops, and succeeded in making them a standout example of good industrial relations. This is a job, she shows clearly, that is never finished. It is not a question of setting up a good system and then...
...every instrument in the band was playing at once. In the huge cacophony the deep notes of the melody were almost drowned out. From platform, press and radio voices roared, barked, shrilled, pleaded. Newspapers carried full-page ads: Wendell Willkie Reneges. . . . This Is the Last Chance to Think. . . . Today I Am No Longer Free. ... 7 Voted for the Beguiling Voice. . . . Why We Want Willkie. . . . This Is a Crusade. . . . To Those Who Still Have an Open Mind...
...surface Henry Ford and Robert Boyer have done more to plague steelmakers than to solve the farm problem. But if their dream is true, the technological novelty known as plastics has graduated from its celluloid-and-Beetleware phase into an instrument of industrial revolution...
Aiming their new warlike instrument at the sun from the Harvard station in Climax, Colorado, Donald H. Menzel, Prof. of Astrophysics and his assistant Walter Roberts, a graduate student in Astronomy, are shown above. This new station is the most recent addition to the ever expanding horizons of Dr. Shapley's world famous observatory on Garden St., here in Cambridge. The instrument embodies the most recent developments in optics including the new "invisible glass" coating which was developed by Dr. C. H. Cartwright at M. I. T. It will study the mysterious solar corona and prominences, upheavals of which occasionally...
Professor Menzel will give a free public lecture tonight about this instrument and the work done with it this summer. The title of his talk, which is one of a series of regular "Open Night" lectures at the Observatory, will be "Mystery of the Solar Corona...