Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until 1961. Surprised British statesmen, suddenly realizing that protection of this oil lease would involve great military effort and huge expenditures, ended by negotiating. Anglo-Persian's basic holdings were enormously decreased and the Shah obtained increased royalties which were promptly earmarked for the army. This highly successful instrument of national freedom, now 100,000 strong, still receives its daily orders from His Imperial Majesty...
...contrast to the astronomical telescope the new instrument is designed to reveal the smallest elements of matter...
...whether a convention should be called. In 1916 the voters apathetically said No. In 1936 they apathetically said Yes. So last week 164 elected delegates, six of them women, filed into the Assembly Chamber in the old State Capitol at Albany to begin writing a more streamlined instrument of government for the most populous State...
...Paley read, quickly and nervously: "The broadcasting industry should unite on a definite program of service, of progress and of protection. . . . The newly organized National Association of broadcasters [which last fortnight picked Louisville Newspaperman Mark Foster Ethridge as temporary president] . . . may well be the instrument. . . . Broadcasting, of course, should be subject to all legislation and regulation governing business in general [but] . . . regulation should be limited to the bare necessities of the case and should never go beyond that. . . . There should be a minimum of regulation...
...aging Casals has not played in the U. S. for nearly a decade. Three years ago, when Austrian-born Cellist Emanuel Feuermann made his Manhattan debut, he set the cello fans' heads to wagging. Short, roundheaded Feuermann not only drew a powerful, well-modulated tone from his recalcitrant instrument, he could play it with a rippling facility that put most violinists to shame. Last week Cellist Feuermann finished the most ambitious cellistic venture ever witnessed in Manhattan concert halls. In a cycle of four concerts with the National Orchestral Association he had played 13 large-scale compositions for cello...