Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zoology department has recently bought for about $450 a machine which enables the worker to dissect living organisms so small they must be viewed through a microscope. Fine glass needles are so arranged in the instrument that a coarse movement of the hand lever registers only the slightest motion in the needles. The worker can actually touch the nerves of tiny cells with his instrument and watch the muscular reaction...
...force its government to terms would so multiply its target as to make a shot impractical. If Great Britain and France will not consent to an arms parley at Stresa, they must shepherd Hitler back to the Geneva conference, and a boycott would provide the quickest and least disastrous instrument for this purpose. Hitler must have a voice in the settlement of the armament question; he cannot accept the decision which seems impending at Geneva, he is unable to meet his colleagues at Stresa. The immediate point should be a provision for the statement of his claims to the victors...
...that "extreme instrument" in the Roosevelt tool bag, the Securities Act, Sir Josiah chuckled: "They designed it to protect investors but in their enthusiasm Congress so framed it as to make it impossible to draw up a prospectus so as to raise money...
Clearly the League is set up on the democratic hypothesis, and the rejection of that hypothesis by two of Europe's greatest nations must call its utility as an instrument into serious question. The dictator can have small truck with parliamentary diplomacy Mussolini has been cold to the League and the Nazis have been adamant France and Great Britain must not relinquish their stand against secret diplomacy, which is the most heady of all stimulants to war. But European economics make war at the present time a virtual impossibility and between the prestige of Geneva and the need for Hitler...
...which he peers into the eyes of fish, birds, snakes and beasts. Doing likewise, remarks he in his Phi Beta Kappa article, "will prove an event in the lives of most scientists. Nor, strange to say, are very many animals averse to the use on their eyes of that instrument of investigation [the ophthalmoscope]. Some indeed, particularly birds, are promptly hypnotized by its light and become quite tractable, cooing and cooing with great affection during all the exploration of the interior of their eyes...