Word: tools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...electrical knife perfected by Dr. George Austin Wyeth of Manhattan received great tribute as a cancer tool. It reams out tiny holes wherein the cut of a scalpel would be brutal...
...heard to mouth its more quotable passages. They use it as an authority upon world peace, upon farm relief, upon harbor legislation. And William J. Bryan won a presidential nomination by a Biblical simile as astounding as it was inept. But the Bible was not written as a political tool, nor yet as a grammar. It was a monument erected out of the sincerity of men's hearts to one of the greatest institutions mankind has known. It should be studied in the full realization of that sincerity and with high appreciation of its timeless truths...
Died. Colonel Edward Alfred Simmons, 56. publisher & rail expert; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Brooklyn. X. Y. He was president of Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corp. (Railway Age, Airway Age, Boiler Maker) and of American Saw Works, and board chairman of American Machine Tool...
Once considered a smart young bad boy of English letters, Aldous Huxley is conquering his cleverness, subduing it to a useful tool. Born a highbrow, he has become an uncommonly sensible intellectual realist. There are times in this collection of essays when he reminds you of the late forthright Enoch Arnold Bennett. The voice is similar but the hands are different: for Huxley is on the whole preoccupied with universal, not parochial, themes...
...trying to prohibit sale of Cities Service stock] to throw our companies into the hands of receivers and oust us from the State of Kansas. I think we will be able to prove that the Kansas City Star instigated all of this . . . and that Governor Woodring was a mere tool . . . forced to do the bidding of the Kansas City Star." Also Mr. Doherty charged that Publisher Longan's son-in-law, Lawyer Ben C. Hyde, Jr., nephew of Secretary Hyde, was interested in a gas company being formed which would compete with Cities Service, with the backing of Publisher...