Word: tools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Compressed air is a ubiquitous tool in industry and transportation. Last fortnight a 35-year-old businessman of Phoenix, Ariz., L. V. Jones, convinced scientists at California Institute of Technology that he had found a way of compressing air more efficiently and cheaply than ever before. In practice, the compression of air generates heat which must be drawn off by water jackets. In the Jones device, there are no water jackets. The heat of the compressed air is removed by circulating oil and returned to the pump where it furnishes accessory driving energy. The same principle, Mr. Jones declared last...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt was awarded the 1938 American Hebrew Medal "for outstanding service in promoting Better Understanding between Christians and Jews." Worse understanding between Americans and "Aryans" was the immediate result: the Nazi press flayed the President as a tool of Jewry...
...continued his friend R. J. Thomas as supervisor of relations with Chrysler Corp. Ed Hall was assigned to General Motors and to unorganized Ford. To Walter Wells fell parts, tool & die plants. Mr. Martin's two chief rivals-his quarrel with whom almost disrupted the motor workers' union (TIME, Oct. 3)-got special satrapies: Wyndham Mortimer was sent from Detroit to "work with and assist" WPA auxiliaries and aircraft factory locals in the East; and barrel-chested young Richard Frankensteen was given an identical task in California...
...favored students can join for a few hours of dinner and common room talk. To the six or seven undergraduates invited it gives the opportunity of becoming better acquainted with their superiors, of participating in stimulating discussion of an academic sort. Conceived as such, the dinner is another fine tool for the machine of liberal education. Therefore the present obstacle to its application and extension should be removed by eliminating the restriction now imposed on the majority...
They are also a potent research tool in many branches of science...