Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hale alone among the scientists of the world had the vision and the courage to plan an instrument for scientific research which startles the imagination, and which, in the hands of Dr. Hubble, Dr. Bowen and their colleagues, is certain to bring the solution of some of the deepest mysteries of the Universe. To us the Mount Palomar Observatory always will be the Hale Observatory...
...Communist Unitá, quick to make national political capital out of the Pescara results, crowed triumphantly: "The Front has shown itself to be an instrument capable of drawing together and organizing all Italians without difference of class. . . ." Following up their advantage, the Front pointed to other promises. Moscow favored Italian trusteeship under the U.N. for Italy's prewar African colonies; if the Front won power in the April elections, a way might be found to bring Trieste back under Italian control.* What, asked the Front, could Premier de Gasperi offer? The Front's answer: only more U.S. meddling...
...scheduled airlines carrying passengers at night, or under instrument flying conditions, must be equipped with crash warning radars.* The original deadline, Feb. 15, has been extended by the Civil Aeronautics Board because the manufacturers could not produce the radars fast enough...
...written an Essay on Despotism; now, living in Amsterdam, he wrote, translated, and, as a member of the Freemasons, planned to make them an instrument of world reform. Arrested again, imprisoned in the gloomy fortress at Vincennes, he was, at 28, ruined, his health destroyed, his mind preserved only by the works he wrote (14 or 15 hours a day) so as to keep from brooding on his plight...
Professor Leet has successfully tried his technique on several hurricanes. His method, he says, is practicable only if the seismograph gives a running report to observers above the ground. The College's new instrument, which dispenses with underground journeys and photographic plates, is the first of this type...