Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere, an instrument exceeded in size by only two others in the world, will be in operation at the new South African station of the College Observatory within the next two years, it was announced today by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the observatory. The contract for this giant research instrument has just been awarded to a firm in Pittsburgh, Pa., that has made many large telescopes, including the 72-inch reflector at the Dominion Observatory, Victoria, B. C., the world's second largest...
...which a concave mirror sixty inches in diameter replaces the convex lens of the more familiar, or refracting type. The mirror faces the star and, as it is concave, or dish-shaped, the light rays converge after being reflected from it. They are reflected to the side of the instrument by a second, flat mirror, in one type, and are brought to a focus on a photograph plate, or in an eyepiece, if the telescope is being used visually...
...portion of the Book. The other was on why do the people object to the carillon* and I still think I was some way right on it. My answer was, "because they are not spiritual enough to desire the kind of music we usually get from that class of instrument." And don't you think if they were in harmony with those things they would be glad to have them ? . . . I would like to have more of things of the Kingdom and Jesus from your, and, my station, good old WGY. B. M. STEEL...
...such a conference to be held at Washington which should conclude the work begun by Mr. Hughes in 1921. That the at last forthcoming definite proposal should choose Geneva and the machinery of the League is significant of the changing attitude of official United States at last toward this instrument for peace which the mental abberation of a nation passed by in 1919. The time is not perhaps for distant when those "elder statesmen" in the Senate who exulted over the temporary delay to America's entry into the World Court because of the impossibility of acceptance by European powers...
...Crimson, backstage in the Tremont Theatre yesterday. He had just finished a performance and was resting for a moment after his strenuous three hours. Just at that moment, there squeezed angrily through the doorway of the dressing room a musician carrying under his arm a bass viol. Turning the instrument over, he showed three great cracks to the comedian. "How about getting the heat turned off in this the-alre?" he asked. But Lewis, not taken aback by this declared, "What! and have all of us and our little ladies catch cold,-to save that!" and he pointed disdainfully...