Word: tools
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telescope maker's art. It is provided for the 24-inch Bruce photographic doublet which for thirty years has been in operation, with a rather inferior mounting, at the former Harvard station in Arequipa, Peru. The 24-inch Bruce has long been the Observatory's most powerful tool for studying southern stars and nebulae, and with its new modern mounting it will continue on two especially significant problems--first, the survey of the super-system of galaxies known as the spiral or extra-galactic nebulae, and second, the motions of stars, and the stellar structure, in the neighborhood...
...minutes later Hooverites who did not switch off their radios after the Beaver Man had finished, were startled, shocked, prodded into indignation by another voice which denounced Candidate Hoover as a "tool of the capitalists...
Like any other politician, Candidate Foster was careful to omit none of his party's time-tested cliches. Another "tool of the Capitalists," he said, was Democrat Smith. The Workers party, he explained, was part of the Communist International. It was a revolutionary party. Its aim was to overthrow the capitalist order in the U. S. Capitalism bred war. Capitalism would involve the U. S. in the "next...
Marco Millions-MARCO POLO IS TOOL IN BABBITT FLAYING WHILE O'NEILL SNEERS...
...wooed and quickly won Jessie, 16-year-old daughter of irascible Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri. But the Senator objected to their marriage, so Frémont surveyed in Iowa before eloping with Jessie. Vexed though the Senator was, he forgave and made Frémont his willing tool to open up the vast West. The young couple were presented to President Tyler in "the greatest crush in the White House since President Jackson had exhibited Colonel Meacham's gigantic cheese...