Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the Army's experience with the mail showed its major weakness to be in instrument flying the committee could not well deny: "Our military aviation has led the art [of flying] in all particulars except in the use of avigation and communication instruments. . . ." To make U. S. military aviation the world's finest, the committee had these major recommendations...
...Construction of a 500-m.p.h. wind tunnel (see below) ¶ Increase of flying hours from 200 to 300 per Army pilot per year. ¶ Additional provision for training in night, instrument, radio beam and bad weather flying. ¶ A minimum of 2,320 airplanes for Army peacetime requirements. Present number: 1.500.* ¶ Development of a 1,000-h.p. liquid-cooled Diesel engine. ¶ Immediate organization of an independent "General Headquarters Air Force." composed of all tactical combat units of the Air Corps under a separate commander. ¶ An annual aircraft procurement program for Army & Navy with purchases by three methods...
Last week the crwth, the virginal, the rebec, the fipple, the lute, the dulcimer, the zither and many another old and forgotten instrument was to be heard in the little Surrey town of Haslemere where 76-year-old Arnold Dolmetsch was giving the tenth annual Haslemere Festival of Ancient Music...
...what was to come. Just as there must be a period of dry toll for every artist, so these months of drudgery were a flame which was to transform our dress into steel, and weld the metal into a tool, which, though worthless in itself, could act as an instrument through which might be transmitted that most glorious of clarion calls against intolerance, bigotry and injustice, that ringing, heartfelt appeal for liberty, that supreme endeavor of the human mind to pierce the outer encircling darkness,--the Ivy Oration...
...Last April U. S. radio-listeners followed suit, when his radio novel, Conflict, began to be broadcast over the Columbia network. Author Stribling is enthusiastic over radio as a literary medium, says its sound effects free the author "from an immense labor of description," considers it "the most perfect instrument for the artistic imagination yet devised...