Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would punish Stanford White, for having been the instrument of his deprivation. They came back to New York and plunged into its high-roaring surf of folly, after which bath he killed...
...added as a result of Mid-year grades, seems to indicate with no little degree of certainty that probation has not aided many men in raising their scholastic rank. Certainly it was of no marked advantage to the fifty men who were dropped. And to continue to wield an instrument whose discipline does not accomplish the purpose intended is paternalism in excessive and unscientific doses...
...below the surface. It merely happens that about three hundred years ago, isolated individuals about the continent of Europe wanted to know. That is, they refused to accept the dog-oared Aristotle so long revered by lothargic scholasticists, and became engrossed in finding out for themselves. Their chief instrument was doubt; their great virtue, a painstaking, indefatigable capacity for work. With Galileo, Descartes and Bacon began modern science--and so sound were the methods employed, so fruitful the results of this often-condemned skepticism, that now in 1924, the world is "warned against the dangers of entrusting the weapons...
...Liberal Party, made a sortie against Premier MacDonald's foreign policy. The Premier's handling of Anglo-French relations was strongly attacked, Mr. Asquith expressing dissatisfaction with the Ruhr and Rhineland questions. Mr. MacDonald upheld his belief that the League of Nations was the best instrument to limit the existing menace to world peace...
...addition to Mr. Coates, the personnel includes Joseph Bonnet, who is perhaps the world's most distinguished organist, and Vladimir Rosing, noted operatic director. One of the organs is said to be the largest in the world. Another contains an equivalent for every percussion instrument imaginable?military drum, oriental drum, bells, steamboat whistle...