Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an Amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free Governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield...
...Nizam of Hyderabad's trusty Sir Akbar Hydari, firm demanding of the British Raj virtual amendment of the new Constitution by insertion in the Act of Accession, presenting for the signature of His Exalted Highness and other native rulers, such ultrasafe clauses as: "Nothing in this instrument affects the continuance of my Sovereignty in and over this State...
...Illinois law permits trustees to hold any investments received under the trust, but like the law of Pennsylvania and many another State, specifies how trust funds may be invested when not otherwise provided by a will or trust instrument. Last week in Philadelphia, a 3-10-2 decision by the Orphans' Court permitting the investment in corporate stocks of unrestricted trust monies created a sensation among sensation-proof Philadelphia lawyers. Wrote New-Dealing Judge William Curtis Bok, grandson of the late great publisher Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis: "Fiduciaries cannot be put in vacuum and set apart from other investors...
...causes of radio static has been discovered as the result of the development of a new instrument which enables scientists to detect imperfections in insulations used for very high voltages. The device, a perfected high-voltage bridge, has been developed at the Graduate School of Engineering by Chester L. Dawes, associate professor of Electrical Engineering, and Reuben Reiter...
Secretary Mullins next announced a new General Achievement Test, which will be given along with the aptitude test. The achievement test is so new that Secretary Mullins was not sure what it would be like, except that it would "furnish the participating universities with an instrument that will help them distinguish sharply between mediocre students and those of real promise...