Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eclipse, and in recent years the prominences have been studied and photographed regularly with spectrohelioscopes and spectroheliographs. Bernard Lyot of France, operating a special telescope from a mountain in the Pyrenees, managed to chart the corona of the uneclipsed sun, and Bell Telephone Laboratories have lately designed an instrument called the "Coronaviser," which sidetracks the light from the body of the sun, then scans the prominences and corona with a television pickup. But nothing equals one of Nature's own blackouts...
John Steinbeck can write, and write wonderfully. But I am outraged when I trust so capable an artist to have him try to knock the intellectual sensitiveness out of me with a bang on the head-or the heart?-using his typewriter as instrument. I dare to say that Of Mice and Men is an illegitimate attack on the emotions, as are also parts of The Grapes of Wrath...
...Orleans Negro liquor dealer, Jelly started playing guitar and singing spirituals at funerals, then switched to the piano when he heard a male pianist at the French Opera House. Until then he had assumed that the piano was a woman's instrument. He took some lessons at a Catholic school, but considers his real mentor an eight-fingered virtuoso named Mamie Desdume, "good-natured, a fine dresser, and extremely popular with the sporting crowd." Mamie played the first blues Jelly ever heard, and she is gratefully recalled in the album by Mamie's Blues...
...instrument will not only provide prompt and accurate location of enemy batteries but will prevent such World War blunders as bombarding one's own troops of delaying attacks by underestimated gun-fire, for it will record the positions where shells are exploding...
...while he was working on the University observatory grounds at Oak Ridge that Leet first conceived of a new application of the delicate seismograph. Noticing extraordinary vibrations recorded on his instrument, he conducted search of the neighborhood and found that laborers were blasting nearby. At that point he decided to investigate artificial earthquakes caused by the dynamite...