Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dinner table may often be as good an instrument of liberal education as a conference room or a lecture hall. . ." President Conant...
...great estates, he stayed caged only long enough to go through Eton and Cambridge, then set off to live dangerously in far places. Twice before he was 20 he circled the globe, but trotting in tourist tracks was not his idea. He aimed to make his body an instrument of his will. Practicing this counsel of perfection, he wandered purposefully to Mexico, California, Alaska, the Barren Lands north of Hudson Bay, the centre of Africa, Siberia, South America, Burma...
...land boom of 1926 he organized the "American-British improvement Corp.," planned to build a city called "Floranada" on 3,600 Florida acres. Collapse of the boom wiped out his own fortune and millions loaned by his family. "I discovered that a diamond-encrusted golden spoon can become an instrument of torture-when it stirs the bitter tea of failure...
Announced for early marketing by both Dictograph Products Co., Inc., and Sonotone Corp. were similar portable devices for hearing by bone-conduction of sound Dictograph's instrument was new, Sonotone's an improvement on one it began marketing last November. That was developed by Sonotone's Dr. Hugo Lieber, after Sonotone gave up the U. S. distributing rights to "Fortiphone", hearing aid produced by Berlin's Siemens & Halske...
...caused by some obstruction in the outer ear passage or by hardening of the middle ear ossicles. Present, familiar air-conduction hearing devices are simply modified telephone receivers which step up sound vibrations to penetrate through the obstructed passage to the inner ear. Advantages claimed for the bone-conduction instrument are a mellower, more natural tone, an increase in hearing range. No more than the air-conduction instrument will it restore hearing to people whose auditory nerves are impaired...