Word: tooling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most rudimentary understanding of the workings of the living, changing cell is enormously difficult. It would be even harder without a new tool: nitrogen 15, a stable (nonradioactive) isotope of nitrogen. Chemically, nitrogen 15 is exactly like the common nitrogen 14. The cells cannot tell the difference. But since it is slightly heavier, nitrogen 15 can be measured accurately by a balky and expensive instrument called a mass spectrometer. If compounds containing nitrogen 15 instead of ordinary nitrogen are fed to cells, the scientists can tell with the mass spectrometer whether the cells have accepted them as food...
Each Saturday and Sunday for the past three months, a little procession has arrived punctually at 6:30 p.m. at RCA Victor's midtown Manhattan recording studios. The routine never varies. The youngest, Mlle. Denise Restout, goes straight to the harpsichord, yanks open her tool kit, and starts tuning. The huskiest, Mlle. Elsa Schunicke, carries the pillows and the hamper, loaded with sandwiches, a vacuum jug of coffee, and a supply of specially blended horehound drops. Then, her hands folded before her, and her craggy features blissfully composed, Mme. Wanda Landowska herself floats in like a tiny wraith, nods...
...Madrid radio decided that there was something sinister about Eleanor Roosevelt (see PRESS). Spluttered Madrid: What about the great influence of the "personal whims of the famous lady? . . . Is it a case of feminine dictatorship? . . . Is she the tool of a mysterious international power that gives orders and looks out for its own interests? . . . Is Mrs. Roosevelt a sort of Stalin in petticoats...
...Gerhart Eisler said he would proceed to the Russian zone of Germany and take a teaching post at Leipzig. Although jubilant, the little man seemed somewhat puzzled by his release. In his Red dream world, the British court which ruled on his case should have functioned as a docile tool of U.S. imperialist terror. Said Eisler, whimsically: "I ain't no mastermind, but I'm an average good Communist. I try to be a better Communist every...
...tries to hew to a pocket-money allowance of $125 doled out weekly by a Wall Street law firm, which receives his income, pays his bills, nourishes his annuities and tends to the dozen companies lumped under the name Milton Berle Enterprises, Inc. Among his interests: a machine tool company, a furniture factory, real estate, music publishing, a toy business, a producing company...