Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kellogg has allowed the European nations generous reservations and granted none to the United States. His "implied reservations" to the pledge to renounce war as an instrument of national policy include self-defense, violation of the treaty by any signatory, obligations of the League of Nations states arising from the League covenant, and the Locarno obligations. To offset these concessions Secretary Kellogg has asked no reservations for such a vital American policy as the Monroe Doctrine...
...significant that the airplane, instrument of swiftest progress, was purchased by a "24-hour newspaper" (morning and evening combination) and the only newspaper in its city. It is to be used as part of the regular equipment, not as a stunting device to outdo, for the moment, a competitor...
...passionate sorrow, yet there was swaying and swooning in groups. It was extraordinarily well done. Responsible for the dramatic composition and the stage direction was Miss Irene Lewisohn.* The voices of invisible singers mingled with the orchestral sounds. The Rembrandt-like picture on the stage was but one more instrument. Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff was at his best; connoisseurs called him great...
Last week, amid deadly secrecy, the Suffolk was inspected for the first time by civilians, when three Cabinet members and 150 M. P.'s went aboard. The Admiralty, shrewd to the last, decreed that the torpedo rooms, and gun control stations should be locked and all instrument panels covered with concealing canvas...
...organ of student government. But the days of student government, at Harvard certainly, are past. Students are too disorganized, too interested in their individual pursuits, intellectual or otherwise, to need or support any machinery of undergraduate government. Nor can the Student Council properly be regarded as a convenient instrument for the execution of faculty discipline. If the faculty is to pass judgment on any individual or group at Harvard, the students would much rather have it execute such judgment itself than through any group of undergraduates...