Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seizure [by China from Russia-(TIME, July 22)] of the Chinese Eastern Railway simply means that the Chinese no longer will stand for anything and everything foreigners may try to put over on them. There is little doubt that Soviet Russia was using the railway as a political instrument to China's detriment, and that Soviet officials of the railway were utilizing their offices as headquarters for Communist propaganda tending to undermine the authority of the Nationalist government. Documentary evidence exists to prove this. And it has not been so very long since the United States, on less provocation...
...hand. Had not strange tales of his "ether music" preceded him from Europe, doubtless few would have attended his demonstrations in Manhattan (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928). But many of the curious went. They saw a slender, tense person of some 30 years take his stand unaffectedly before an instrument resembling a radio set. Then he adjusted plugs and dials on the box (by which timbre was varied and controlled), moving his hands before two antennae (the right regulating pitch, the left expression), made music which, amplified by a loud speaker, filled the hall...
Bonaparte once said to a musician: "There is only one musical instrument I know that never gets out of tune?that is the drum...
...France the bagpipe was a favorite instrument in Marie Antoinette's day. Marie herself piped. Courtiers called it the musette and equipped it with hand bellows so that their pretty faces would not be empurpled by hard blowing. Respectability came to the musette when Schubert and Handel wrote pieces for it, when a musette player played in the Opera orchestra in Paris in the iSth century...
...projected naval reduction pact to be explicitly based on the obligation to disarm, implicit in the Kellogg Pact under which most of the nations of the world have already "renounced war as an instrument of national policy...