Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaving-the-country" tax.... And if the Nazi government succeeds in getting this ransom money, it at once establishes a precedent to be followed by other European Have-Not countries, such as Italy, Poland, and Hungary, where Anti-Semitism smolders, awaiting a real test of its usefulness as an instrument of economic policy. Hence, the welfare of all the Jews in Central Europe may be at stake, and you might then face the problem of having to remove all the Jews from central Europe...
Theory of General Semantics is exceedingly complex (Korzybski calls it a "non-Aristotelian system"), but its method of instruction is simple. Chief instrument of training is the "structural differential." By handling this implement, students (who call it "the semantic rosary") learn graphically that there are different, "nonidentical" orders of meaning connected with each basic phenomenon. Thus, one plate in the implement represents a phenomenon (e.g., an apple), and the holes in it represent its infinite number of scientific characteristics, some perceptible to man, some unknown. Linked to that is a disc representing the physical, perceptible object, and to that...
Spain and Ethiopia. The vote of confidence secured by Neville Chamberlain specifically covered his announced intention to declare in force the Italo-British treaty of last April. This instrument recognizes the Ethiopian conquest on the condition that "substantial" numbers of Italian troops are withdrawn from Spain. Spain recently said good-by to 10,000 Italians. There are still some 40,000 Italians fighting for General Franco, but Mr. Chamberlain told the House last week...
...popular success was assured. In the U. S. and England a good part of its popularity came from its superb translation, by University of California Professor Haakon Chevalier, who captured the distinctive quality of Malraux's prose, made it in English as it is in French a masterly instrument for communicating scenes of violence or a sense of impending calamity, at once lyrical, cadenced and strong...
...BLUNT INSTRUMENT - Georgette Heyer - Crime Club ($2). A blunt instrument finishes the philandering of a well-to-do English gentleman. Notable for amusing, effortless dialogue, engaging characters...