Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another study was made by Richard E. Thompson '52, which he submitted as his Senior Honors thesis in the Department of Social Relations. Thompson established the SPT as a valid instrument for distinguishing among children already showing behavioral difficulties, those who are true delinquents from those whose maladapted behavior is temporary. The SPT showed that among a representative group of 100 boys, included originally in a research project called the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study, it would again have been possible to identify accurately 91 per cent of all the boys as either potential delinquents or as non-delinquents...
With a great number of younger Mississippians, a number that would frighten our embittered elders, I deplore the prejudice and ugliness of Mississippi politics as displayed in the recent primary elections. When we who love our state have a more powerful voice, we will be an effective instrument for lifting Mississippi from the mire of such as this...
...pilot pressed a button. From its nest under the bomber's right wing, the long, black, needle-nosed X-15 dropped free at 38,000 ft. In its instrument-crammed cockpit at that instant, Test Pilot Scott Crossfield started his rocket engines and flashed ahead on the first powered flight of the experimental plane that is designed to take man to the edge of space...
Looks good across the board [i.e., instrument readings...
...that instant, Big Joe's two radio transmitters predictably blacked out under an electrical blanket of ionized air. But a recorder inside kept taping instrument signals until the one-ton capsule recovered its voice, then began transmitting all the data that it had collected in no man's land. Slowing down to 700 m.p.h. in the atmosphere. Big Joe popped a parachute when it reached 50,000 ft., then another at 10,000 ft. It sizzled into the ocean at a gentle 20 m.p.h., 20 min. after takeoff, still beeping its signals. Homing planes quickly zeroed...