Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reading knowledge of Latin or Greek, in some fields of learning, may prove valuable as an instrument for furthering research. Further an ability to read either of these opens wide vistas for the appreciation of a literature that has endured all ravages of time. Certainly these advantages cannot be brushed aside lightly. In certain phases of history, in a study of the history of literature, in philosophy, and in the history of science a reading knowledge of Latin or Greek would be a valuable asset to a student interested in the growth of ideas on these subjects. The fact that...
...razor in hand for shaving. Stravinsky enthusiasts point reverently to his Symphony of Psalms which most laymen find cerebral, harsh, forbidding with its predominant brasses. Stravinsky's smaller works would seem like sketches if it were not for his sure, crafty workmanship, his uncanny gift for making each instrument behave like a soloist. In March Boston will pass verdict on his ballet Persephone, lately produced in Paris by Dancer Ida Rubenstein...
Hudson's specialties for 1935 are all-steel roofs and a power-vacuum gear-shifter called the "electric hand." Attached to the steering column directly under the wheel is an instrument connected with magnets on the transmission. A flip of the ringer selects the desired shift. Then, when the clutch is depressed, a mechanism on the transmission, actuated by the manifold vacuum, shifts the gears. If an optional automatic clutch is used, the shift occurs when the foot is raised from the accelerator. Thus in traffic the "electric hand" may be set at second speed before a shift...
...rights and wrongs of social or economic questions but it took no second thought to agree that War was Evil. Enthusiastically the U. S. plumped for limitation of naval armaments in 1922. Enthusiastically the U. S. plumped for Secretary of State Kellogg's multilateral treaty renouncing war as an instrument of national policy. Enthusiastically the U. S. plumped for embargoes on arms shipments to China, to Bolivia, to Paraguay...
...into one of many holes in the board. For his total score he receives a certain number of coupons exchangeable for merchandise. The average player, of course, spends much more accumulating sufficient points to win, say, a $25 radio than he would if he went out and bought the instrument for cash. Smart players can run up enough points to get more in merchandise than they put into the machine in coins. Some make the game a profession, carry their own bubble levels to gauge the tilt of each table. Others try to beat the house by marking the plunger...