Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orchestras. The Federation of Musicians is fighting its battle by a propaganda campaign to persuade the public that "canned" orchestras are never as clear, never as rich as orchestras "in person," that for Music's sweet sake no mechanical device should be permitted to intervene between ear and instrument...
...have never loved money for its own sake. ... I have tried to make money that it might be an instrument of service...
...Levinson could catch only_ words, phrases: "Conscience and idealism of civilized nations. . . . New step. ... Magnificent response of the world to these proposals. ... I congratulate this assembly ... the entire world upon the coming into force of this additional instrument of humane endeavor to do away with...
Naval Reductions. Commenting bitterly on the loss of the H4? (see p. 22) and the long series of previous British submarine disasters, Lt. Commander Joseph Montague Kenworthy, Laborite, M. P., a retired naval officer, urged complete abolition of the submarine as an instrument of war, urged stopping construction on the six British submarines now under construction. Speaking next day in sooty, steel-manufacturing Sheffield, First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander seemed to agree with him. Said...
...parents hoped he would become a rabbi. At the age of nine he had been studying the Talmud for three years. In 1906 Sarnoff Sr. died. In the same year young David got a $5 job as messenger boy with Commercial Cable Co. He saved $2, bought a telegraph instrument, soon was a junior telegraph operator with the old American Marconi...