Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leet has found that most of the vibrations in the ground and in buildings come from sources that people do not expect, and the majority of industrial detonations produce tremors too small to do any damage to nearby dwellings. By use of a relatively new instrument, the Leet Portable Seismograph, actual measurements of the intensity of industrial vibrations at varying distances from their source have been made. The net result has been of great value to the blasting companies and quarry-owners who, up to the present, had not known just how much damage their blasts have done...
...eloped with a Virginian who had a string of ponies. Four years later one of the ponies threw her, broke a vertebra in her neck. When it had healed she 1) got a divorce, 2) quit playing the viola because her neck was too weak to clinch the instrument, 3) began recording music. Soon nothing would do but perfection. Says she: "I'm just damn tired of hearing bad records...
...knew I was moving when I saw the B-29 back up on me. But it was so quiet that I could hear the clock ticking on my instrument panel. It was eerie. The plane was so sensitive that I had to handle the controls like a surgeon. When I turned on all four cylinders I felt as though somebody had kicked me in the rump with a lead boot. I kept thinking of the terrific power I was sitting...
...whether the Federal Government should, as President Conant recently urged, subsidize the American educational system. If modern thinking holds that education is not a luxury for those able to afford it, but rather a social necessity for all capable of profiting by it, then the Federal Government, the one instrument equipped to reach all the people, must be partially responsible for assistance. Federal subsidization always raises the specter of Federal control; but it seems likely that if both educators and non-educators agree that Washington should have no voice in educational matters, a satisfactory plan could be evolved. Only this...
...Lippisch, butterfly collector, landscape painter, lute player, and designer of the Messerschmitt 163 rocket plane, 2) blond, ruddy Dr. Hans Heinrich, inventor of the ribbon parachute, 3) Russian-born Dr. Eugen Ryschkewitsch, world authority on heat-resisting ceramics. Other new workers at Wright Field: German aerodynamicists, wind-tunnel men, instrument men and experts on all the complexities of modern aviation...