Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emden, Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, Bremen, Hamburg, Kiel. The upper reaches of the Rhine and the Main guided them to Frankfort, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Waldshut. On the Weser lie Gottingen, Kassel, Rotenburg-all aircraft centres. On the Saale, tributary of the Elbe, were the big synthetic oil works of Leuna, the Zeiss instrument works at Jena...
...centre was a long wooden table stacked with books and manuscripts. Trotsky sat down there, began to read the manuscript his friend had brought. Jackson leaned over his shoulder. From under his coat, where he had hidden a pistol, a dagger and an Alpine pick, he chose the heaviest instrument. If he succeeded with this, he would make no sound, do his work with one quick blow...
...President's letter accepting Henry Wallace's resignation warmly commended his "deliberation, true wisdom, and statesmanship," got in some good licks for the New Deal farm record. But the letter was more than a political instrument. It was Mr. Roosevelt's honest estimation of the man who more than any other was responsible for the U. S. agricultural program of the last seven years...
...hobby was astronomy. When in knee pants he pushed a pin through his mother's window shade to see a sun eclipse. In 1881 he built a 9½-inch telescope, began making W. & S. famous in the optical world. In 1893 their 40-inch Yerkes instrument was exhibited at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition. Last year their 82-inch McDonald telescope was erected in Texas...
...three face-liftings, has operated on a score of movie faces. His is one of the most lucrative branches of surgery. He makes one incision, in front of the ear, one under and behind it, sometimes a third along the hair line at the temples. With a blunt instrument Dr. Shorell peels the skin from the underlying muscles, as though he were paring a peach. In the muscles, loose from age like worn-out elastic bands, he takes a tuck with absorbable catgut. No tissue is cut away. Then Dr. Shorell redrapes the skin over the tightened muscles, snips away...