Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...station will be equipped with a coronagraph, a new instrument for creating artificial solar eclipses and making possible regular observations of the corona, mysterious halo surrounding the sun, and also of other phenomena of the sun's atmosphere. This instrument is the only one of its kind in the Western Hemisphere...
...Medicine. I didn't know D. D. was a storekeeper, but evidently your reporter is unaware of the fact that an Electroencephaloneuromentimpograph (correct spelling- check your story) is used at Bellevue Hospital, New York City, as well as by the chiropractic profession. . . . Dr. B. J. Palmer's instrument is a five-channel instrument, the first of its kind. Bellevue's is a three-channel instrument, patterned after Dr. Palmer's and used for the same purpose. . . . I'm not a chiropractor; but I know what chiropractic can do and has done for myself and others...
There are only four makers of military optical instruments in the U. S. One is Kollmorgen (of Brooklyn), which concentrates on periscopes. Another is Keuffel & Esser (of Hoboken, N. J.), which makes range finders, trench periscopes. A third is Spencer-Lens Co., scientific instrument subsidiary of American Optical Co. The fourth is Bausch & Lomb (of Rochester, N. Y.), which makes binoculars, range finders, periscopes, about 50% of all the military optical goods sold...
...four-month course, the boys went out into the world to battle brawny patients, crazy with pain. "Be pitiless," counseled Dr. Harris. "As the patient is very apt to catch the hand of the operator, he must have both hands ready and, when one is pulled away, seize the instrument with the other and so go on until the operation is complete...
...large iron hook with a head that ringed an aching tooth, a long handle for a good grip. "There never was a claw on bird or beast," wrote Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, "that was the cause of such anguish . . . such howls of agony as that diabolical instrument looking like a vulture's talon...