Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through his 20s, Faraday was delayed in his scientific development by the ghastly gaps in his education. He was a magnificent "poetical" theorist, but his spelling was a sin and his math a calamity. Unable to make mathematical demonstrations, he was forced to execute physical proofs. Experiment was his instrument, and he employed it with prodigious ingenuity to demolish the world as science...
Some experts had speculated that the instrument would not be restored. They predicted that by the time it could be finished, the experiments it was built to perform would have been completed elsewhere...
Although it is true that a scientific instrument such as the bubble chamber or even the accelerator itself does have an almost measurable "halflife" or period of peak usefulness, Pless explained, there is an excess of work for the approximately 15 bubble chambers in the world today...
Music had small charm for Donald Morton. He could not read a note; he had difficulty recognizing tunes; he could not easily tell the sound of one instrument from another. He could not distinguish between an orchestral performance and organ music. Still, by the time he was 35, Morton had learned all too well that there was some music he could tolerate-and some he could not. Loud, fast songs-college marches, the 1812 Overture, New Orleans jazz, rock 'n' roll-went, in effect, in one ear and out the other. They left him unmoved. On the other...
...Common Market circles, Charles de Gaulle's Non! is a more awesome instrument of policy than the force de frappe. Last week in Brussels, he used it again, precipitating yet another of the virtually twice-yearly crises by which France reminds the Six that some are more equal than others...