Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Listening to the particular, familiar sound of the instrument is always enjoyable; hearing it applied in convincingly positive terms to one's own work is a unique satisfaction...
...reviewing ever since, whenever possible. During the war in the countries where I was, it happened very belatedly and only occasionally, hence more impressively. And especially of late, beyond the peculiarities, the imagery, the style puzzle, the puns, all things for which I always envy the editor-playing that instrument must be delightful-I feel that there is in the Books section a hard core, indeed the presence of almost stern literary standards...
Scientists expect M.I.T.'s great instrument to yield important discoveries in dozens of different fields. A considerable part of the laboratory's work will be in solid-state physics (transistors and related electronic devices), which is deeply involved with magnetism. Another department will deal with plasmas, those little-understood ionized gases that obey magnetism as promptly as liquids obey gravitation, and hold the key both to the internal behavior of stars and the design of fusion reactors for power plants...
Among listed growth stocks, none has risen faster than one that appears on the ticker tape as FAV-for Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. An investor who bought $1,000 worth of Fairchild stock when it was selling at its 1958 low of 19½, and held onto it, last week would have had nearly $18,000 worth of stock. Fairchild makes a long list of imaginative products, ranging from a new silicon semiconductor to the first 8-mm. home sound motion-picture camera. It is one of the Street's most cherished buys, ranking with such rapid risers...
...telescope on Palomar Mountain was finished, and Baade had an even better window to look through. He fought for time on this marvelous instrument, and when he got it, he spent all night in the instrument cage. Every trip to Palomar cost him three or four pounds because of excitement and skipped meals...