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Word: instrument (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Problem of Eggs. There is no question that the majority of Latin American people support hemisphere solidarity, but they support it as a means of defense and not as an instrument for fighting non-American wars. They readily see that World War II threatens the U. S. world position, but they do not admit that it threatens theirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Pro-U. S. or Neutral? | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...legitimate fashion and take his problem to the throne of grace in secret behind closed doors. Possibly God may reward him openly. ... It is not good for religion, it is not good for the nation, it is not good for any cause to have prayer degraded into an instrument of publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prayer as Propaganda | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...beyond a rather inarticulate--though exciting--style of jazz. Hall, it would seen, has picked up where Tesch left off, combining Teschmaker's rhythmic, eager way of playing with a superior technique, and with what impresses me as being a far greater sensitivity to the melodic potentialities of his instrument. The result is that Hall plays the best hot music you can hear on clarinet these days. Every note is a rhythmic best, hard and staccato, a method of playing which can pick up even the most lifeless of bands and make them really kick. Yet at the same time...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: SWING | 3/15/1941 | See Source »

When a white light flamed to full intensity on the instrument board of Eastern Air Lines Trip 21-New York to Brownsville-slim, 30-year-old Pilot Jim Perry knew that below him in the night was Stone Mountain. Not far from the radio fan marker that set the bulb alight, the unfinished stone faces of Gutzon Borglum's Confederate Memorial were sweaty with fog and rain. Atlanta's Candler Field was only twelve miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Ceiling 300 | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

Trip 21 crossed over the radio range 800 feet above the field level at 11:44, swung left on the southeast leg for the approved instrument approach procedure. Somewhere beyond he made a procedure turn off the beam, held it briefly, swung back and headed for the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Ceiling 300 | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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