Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might call folk-baroque, with the native bonhomie and verbal felicity of W. C. Fields." His phrases have an engraved quality. Asked how he liked London, for example, he replied: "I consider it a stronghold of dignified living." On his diplomatic role: "I am here to be the instrument of American policy abroad." His most famous line burbled up during a BBC documentary on the Royal Family. When the Queen asked about his housing arrangements, Annenberg answered: "We are in the ambassadorial residence, subject of course to some of the discomfiture as a result of the need for elements...
...altitude of 94 miles, and fall into the eclipse's shadow at a specific point. "Either it goes during that launch window or we pack it up and go home and wait for the next eclipse," said Edmund Reeves, shortly after supervising the hook-up of the 120-pound instrument package with the rocket at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland...
...Happy Organ" was a song about a musical instrument...
...study this portion, the scientists will employ three devices. The first, a spectrograph, was designed by James G. Baker, associate of the Harvard College Observatory. This instrument. weighing a ton, uses 16-inch mirrors and a four-by-six-inch grating with 15,000 individually ruled lines in each inch. According to Menzel, spectroscopic photographs of the outer corona have never been made with such sophisticated equipment...
...that line against one discontented stockholder. He is Charles Pillsbury, 22-year-old scion of the family that founded the flour-milling Pillsbury Co. Far from seeking control of Honeywell, young Pillsbury, a senior in Latin American studies at Yale, is trying to convert the proxy fight into an instrument of protest against the Viet...