Word: tools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eliminate guesswork by eye, he invented jigs, or guides for tools, so that the outline of the product would not be marred by the fallibility of a shaky hand or imperfect vision. He made automatic stops that would disconnect the tool at the precise depth or diameter of a cut. He made clamps to hold the metal while the guided chisels or milling wheels cut it. By dividing his factory into departments-one for barrels, one for stocks, one for each lock piece-the parts could be brought into an assembly room and put together in one continuous, uninterrupted process...
...abused. English was a very permissive language to begin with. Shakespeare, for example, had the advantage of writing when there were no grammars." Some believe that the current outrage over abused English reflects snobberies of class and power. Says Columbia University Sociologist Herbert Gans: "Language is a power tool. I'm not sure if it isn't just the elite who have had power who are worrying over the loss of influence...
British Physicist Paul A.M. Dirac attacked this dilemma in 1931 with the newly developed tool of quantum mechanics. His calculations showed that there should indeed be a magnetic particle (or family of particles) that carries a basic magnetic charge-either north or south. That charge, said Dirac, would be 68.5 times as strong as the charge on an electron. Or it would be some multiple of 68.5-say, 137. Scientists had good reason to respect Dirac's reasoning. He had earlier predicted the existence of a positron, or positively charged counterpart of the electron. The positron was subsequently discovered...
...down such a pretty pattern when he went target shooting: of how some cowboys, who had come around one night with their girls and their guns and told everyone to put on their clothes because they were embarassing their girls, had high-tailed it at the sight of his tool; he spoke and a couple hours passed and the Californians and New Zealanders left--Peg pinching the girls on the buttock and inviting them back--and we were all alone...
MASCO--the Medical Area Service Corporation--is basically a front for Harvard. It is Harvard's baby, and Harvard's tool for consolidating and expanding its control over the hospitals and related medical institutions...