Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is the American system. . . . We have seldom tried even to name it. . . . Some have called it Liberalism but that term has become corrupted by political use. Some have called it Individualism. . . . By its enemies it has been called Capitalism and yet under its ideals capital is but an instrument, not a master. Some have called it Democracy, yet Democracy exists elsewhere under social ideals which do not embrace equality of opportunity...
...Paris. They traced his history: at 12 he had been chef d'orchestre in the theatre of his native town (Tver in North Russia), composed whatever music was required for the plays and conducted the entr'actes. At 14 he went to Moscow to study, chose for his instrument the bull fiddle, toured Europe for ten years as a contrabass virtuoso. By 1919 he had achieved his ambition, become a conductor again. Koussevitzky concerts were soon famous in Moscow and Petrograd but that was not enough for its leader. He wanted to reach the great masses of Russians...
...Harvard Instrumental Clubs will hold trials open to all members of the University on Monday and Tuesday October 6 and 7, in the Music Building. The trials are open to anyone who can play any instrument...
Next time nations go to war, some will surely try to bring others before the World Court, will invoke the Briand-Kellogg pact under which nearly all governments- have "renounced war as an instrument of national policy" (TIME, July 30; Sept. 3, 1928). Last week the Court's bench was happily packed in the pact's favor by electing to it Frank Billings Kellogg himself. Well may naughty nations come to dread the twitching frown of this small, wizened Galahad of Peace. Election was by the Assembly and Council of the League of Nations,† sitting separately...
...will be operated as a subsidiary of Western Electric. Chicago Teletype manufactures printing telegraph equipment which transmits typewritten messages automatically and instantaneously between distant offices, enabling telegraph users to send their own "wires" directly, also to receive telegrams and messages from Teletype-equipped branch offices. (TIME uses such an instrument between editorial office in Manhattan and proof room in Chicago.) While both Western Union and Postal Telegraph & Cable have been increasingly large Teletype customers, the Bell System has more than 10,000 in use, many for its own system, many over leased wires. Another teletype product is the new high...