Word: tools
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Revelry pokes with ruthless imagination into the secret misfortunes of a President of the U. S. whom theatre-goers found it easy to think of as Warren Gamaliel Harding. The audience sees President "Easy" Markham (Actor Berton Churchill) as a stately tool of politicians who run the nation from a poker table stuck away in a private nook known as "the crow's nest." Because of his unwholesome faith in these cronies, he allows the White House to degenerate into what one of the characters described as an automat ("Because when you want to take something out, you just...
Surgeon Pitkin's device, which was described technically in the July number of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, consists of a small pneumatic hammer originally designed by the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co. to grave carvings and letterings on stone and to do delicate riveting. Its over-all length is eight inches, its net weight three and a half pounds. It delivers 3,800 blows a minute, each blow a light tap. But the sum of their rapid succession, when applied to the surgeon's bone-cutting chisel or osteotome, carves away bone precisely to the surgeon's design...
...TIME has been a tool for propagandists, it has been indeed stupid...
Doctors who dared no virtuosity in their professional practice showed last week at the Academy of Medicine, Manhattan, how they toyed as artists in their leisure hours. The hand that swabbed a tonsil also daubed a canvas. Lancet or engraving tool fitted equally well the hand of a surgeon; probe or mahlstick the hand of another physician. What paintings, etchings and statuary they had finished they brought to the Academy for the exhibit. Included in the list were...
...None the less there were major business crises in the U. S. in 1819, 1836, 1847, 1854, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1884, 1893, 1903 and 1907. Some of these crises were panics. "We men of the Congress have prevented such crises; we invented a new financial tool. ... In England last week Reginald M'Kenna, Chairman of the London Joint City and Midland Bank, great institution, and onetime (1915-16) Chancellor of the Exchequer of Great Britain, marveled at our device; suggested that a modification of it be applied to British banking. . . ." The twelve Federal Reserve Banks,* whose charters the Congress...