Word: tripods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cautioning against placing too much emphasis on a student's I. Q. MacLean said that knowledge of the student, knowledge of his social background, and study of teaching methods and environment must form a tripod base for education...
Bunker, who was editor-in-chief of the Roxbury Latin Tripod last year, will have complete charge of the publication of the year book, which comes out the day of the Jubilee...
...thing no eye could escape was a glittering metallic figure entitled Death, which Sculptor Noguchi would like someone to present to the State of Texas (see cut). From a tall tripod hung a metal cable, at the end of which dangled the contorted body of a lynched Negro...
...States, stands inside a vault in the basement of the Geographical Institute, insulated from any vibration affecting the building by its foundation of sand, and kept at a constant temperature of 25 degrees. The master-clock itself, a three foot copper cylinder surmounted by a glass bell, encloses a tripod which supports a long steel pendulum; the air within the cylinder has been exhausted to 1-40th of an atmosphere. A slave clock (with a more prosaic appearance) electrically synchronized with the master every thirty seconds unlocks and resets the two-gram weight which provides all the energy needed...
...piece bathing suit and crepe-soled tennis shoes Artist Olsen slips into the water. A 65-pound metal helmet is placed over his head and shoulders, attached to an air pump on board ship. He goes down 20 to 35 ft., takes with him a Monel steel tripod, easel, and palette spread with regular oil colors. He paints on 8 by 10 in. glass plates covered on both sides with primed canvas...