Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortunate idealists who at length saw a concrete issue of their plans. The pact renouncing war as an instrument of policy was the joint creation of himself and Secretary Kellogg. It may be suggested that the realistic and even cynical Briand was not deceived by the glib pretenses of the pact, but even so he was eminently the man to gauge its psychological value. More important was the Locarno Treaty, which made an epoch in Franco-German diplomacy, and in which the influence of Streseman was vital. The League of Nations, though not of his creating, has taken deeply...
...returned. Within a radius of 300 miles from the point where the meteor struck trees were blown down by force of the air pressure. The fall was recorded as an earthquake disturbance on the seismograph at the University of Moscow and even on the Ferdham University instrument...
...Time" ends, Radio has no substitute at hand. For all its blatant claim to being a medium for education, Radio contributes little of its own beyond the considerable service of bringing good music to the millions. (Yet radiomen sputter with rage when the Radio is called "just another musical instrument...
...actual throwing that Dr. Bainbridge did last week was carried on in a much smaller theatre, with much smaller projectiles. His theatre was a huge mass-spectrograph; his projectiles, atoms. What earned him scientific plaudits rather than police treatment was the fact that his instrument was bigger than anything that had previously been developed in the U. S., could therefore compute relative weights which differed by less than one-trillionth of one-trillionth of an ounce...
John saved enough money tending flowers to buy a guitar?a $6.25 instrument from a mail-order house. People find it hard to believe, but that same guitar is the only real instrument the Mills boys use. With it they had their first success, in radio station WLW, Cincinnati...