Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Council of Learned Societies began financing it in 1931; Yale University was its first home but Brown University offered more spacious quarters. Dr. Kurath is now chairman of Brown's Germanic languages department. The Linguistic Atlas began expediting its work last autumn with a new, cheap recording instrument which makes aluminum discs playable on any phonograph. A pioneer recorder, not actively connected with the Atlas, is Barnard's Professor William Cabell Greet. He has recorded Maine farmers, Blue Ridge mountaineers, Barnard girls, Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith, Nicholas Murray Butler, the late Poet Vachel Lindsay, the London...
...expert pilot. Instead of jerking the controls by direct mechanical force, the new robot eases them by hydraulic and pneumatic action. Also it is lighter and more compact than the old robot, since it utilizes the same gyroscopes that actuate the artificial horizon and directional gyros on the instrument board. It weighs 75 Ibs., occupies a box about 1 ft. square...
There are now in use instruments of 24, 16, 6, and 4 inch apertures besides two patrol cameras. Every clear night a group goes from Cambridge to Oak Ridge to take photographs because the conditions of light and atmosphere there are superior to those surrounding Cambridge. During the past week cloudy conditions have made these observations difficult. The 24 inch instrument is now testing a photoelectric cell that will be used in measuring the luminosity of faint stars. This is also the instrument that will open the World's Fair in case it is cloudy at the Lick Observatory...
...With Secretary of State Hull, President Roosevelt motored to the patioed Pan-American Union Building to address a meeting of the Pan-American Union's governing board. The President interpreted the Monroe Doctrine to his listeners not as an instrument of U. S. dominion over the Americas, but as a mutual protective society "aimed against the acquisition in any manner of the control of additional territory in this hemisphere by any non-American power." For the first time, President Roosevelt took public notice of South America's two undeclared wars between Paraguay and Bolivia, Colombia and Peru...
...such informal concerts given in the New Chapel could easily be kept within the University's budget, since there are students in the graduate school who are fully competent to give such informal concerts and willing to donate their time in exchange for the opportunity of playing the instrument. Such concerts might best be given every day from ten minutes of one to ten minutes after...