Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh arrived in Panama City, a colyumist on El Tiempo deplored that he had become "an instrument of imperialism. . . . The Lindbergh of today . . . translates, expands and fortifies the ambitions of imperialism. He is as significant in a spiritual sense as a Chicago sausage factory...
...inventor is Dr. James Robinson, onetime chief of wireless research for the Royal Air Force. He calls his device the stenode radiostat, which briefly means an instrument for binding within sharply defined limits...
...Brice Goldsborough, expert of Pioneer Instrument Co., was navigator on Mrs. Frances Grayson's amphibian Dawn which was lost between New York and Newfoundland at the start of a trans-Atlantic flight (TIME...
...black chimpanzee, shook the bars of his cage. Irritated, a lion roared into the instrument. Sea lions, excited with fish, grunted and barked. Monkeys chattered, birds screeched, an elephant snorted, a tiger growled, all very obligingly. But Peter, a large hippopotamus, plunged to the bottom of his tank, made not a single grunt. Coyotes, who generally bark when 5 o'clock whistles blow in Manhattan, were fooled by the siren of a fire engine at 4 o'clock, refused to bark again at 5 for the radio audience...
...main purposes. It will furnish in proper condition and adequate quantity fresh and highly varied material for classroom demonstration and laboratory study, especially during the months when such material cannot be obtained from the wild; and, in the second place, the garden will be used as an instrument of research, providing properly prepared beds, as well as adequate cold frame and greenhouse space for experimental cultures in such fields as genetics, embryology, and others...