Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 6,000 U. S. physicians who went to Kansas City last week for the annual convention of the American Medical Association. The underworld remained outside the convention doors. Inside, Presidential Candidate Alfred Mossman Landon did himself no harm by declaring: "Medicine will not willingly be made the servile instrument of politicians or the instrument of domineering bureaucrats." Up leaped the 6,000 doctors, roaring and whistling their approval...
...Poison gas is a humane instrument of warfare. By the introduction of gas and other modern instruments of warfare, a progressively smaller percentage of combatants have been killed...
Seismologists had been quite bewildered over the inexplicable jittering of the seismograph located until recently in the University Museum. Adopting a procedure long in vogue in scientific circles, one of the more imaginative of the bewildered postulated at random a cause for the instrument's super-oscillations, and then proceeded to prove his guess...
Last week California voters solved Alf Landon's problem for him. Publisher Hearst could still puff the Landon boom, but the one instrument by which he could have exerted real pressure on the Kansas candidate had irretrievably slipped his grasp. Commented Governor Landon: "I am entirely satisfied with the California results...
...hunchback, a hideous, pawing old crone. Rocca's orchestra reached a frenzied climax as Leah faced her bridegroom, suddenly screamed like one gone mad. Just as abrupt was the hush when the verdict was passed. "A dybbuk has her ... a dybbuk, a dybbuk. . . ." Curtain went down with every instrument in the orchestra simulating the horror of that dread word...