Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Columbia University to the Council of the League of Nations last June, "you are mistaken. What you really ought to do is to outlaw war." Here the Professor's nine coadjutors clapped a hearty endorsement. The "American Plan" (TIME, June 30), while by no means a perfect instrument, was the first to have any actual elements in it. For example...
...Band will begin its fifth year at 7.30 o'clock tonight with the first try outs in Sanders Theatre. With plans under way to develop the band in many different ways, the management hopes for a record number of candidates. All members of the University, who play any musical instrument, are eligible to compete. All instruments will be supplied free to applicants...
...your stirring message and welcome the support you pledge. . . .We are hearing much in this campaign of the Constitution and of Americanism. I am content to have it so. But I insist that the best friends of the Constitution are those who dared to voice their protest when that instrument, ordained to give perpetuity to the immortal declaration 'conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,' is invoked as a shield for corrupt and law less wealth and for the oppression of the liberties of the people in the exercise of their...
...suffer the temporary defeat of its purposes. But what abject folly to seek upon such a basis to destroy a great political party. . . . with a clear progressive majority in its ranks, within which there has been builded up a progressive movement that promises to make the Republican Party the instrument through which the government will be restored to the people. . . . And upon that fact in recent political history, I appealed to progressive Republicans everywhere to maintain their organization within the Republican Party. What Senator LaFollette would not do for a sound progressive movement because he was not the candidate...
...shoes and sat down in his wheeled chair. All this goes to prove that a woman's place is not always in the home. Mrs. Canfield has many facts ranged at her fingertips like ivory keys; for every fact she has a sympathy, musical, quick. Upon this subtle instrument a fugue is played...