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Word: instruments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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David S. Stacey '40, has developed a new device for determining the intensity of light cast by a photographic enlarger. A versatile instrument, it will measure light intensities varying from those as powerful as the sun's rays to the lowest ever experienced in photographic work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEVELOPS ENLARGER | 10/4/1939 | See Source »

Stacey has been given a special room in the Physics Laboratory to calibrate his instrument...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEVELOPS ENLARGER | 10/4/1939 | See Source »

...only in hull lines, sail area and rigging but even in the minutest detail of equipment. These classes are increasing in great numbers because: 1) one-design boats are cheaper; 2) their racing life is prolonged, since they cannot be outbuilt; 3) the boat is reduced to an instrument (like a tennis racket or golf club) for the display of individual skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Comets | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...plays in his underwear. Says he : "I really think we've got a great mission here, but we have to work hard. The carillon is a folk instrument. It sings with the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bellwhangers | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Sperry Corp. owns Ford Instrument Co. which makes naval gunfire control devices in its closely guarded plant at Long Island City, N. Y., recently bought Waterbury (Conn.) Tool Co. and Vickers, Inc., of Detroit, which manufacture hydraulic pumps and variable speed transmissions. But it is proudest of its biggest and oldest subsidiary, Sperry Gyroscope Co. of Brooklyn and of its English brother, Sperry Gyroscope Co., Ltd., which has just set up a new factory in the English Midlands, to carry on if its London plant is bombed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Profits & Secrets | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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