Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contending that the time when neutrality served as an effective instrument of foreign policy among states is long past, Wild asserted that the Lend-Lease Bill is the type of legislation more in step with the times...
Other curves have been discovered which will do what Sleeper's will, but the value of the latter lies in its simplicity of construction and equation. Upon this simple curve, Sleeper has been able to design an instrument which will automatically trisect any given angle. The apparatus is a simple two-piece device which, when placed correctly over the angle, shows where the lines of trisection are to be drawn...
...Picture has many excellent, many not so excellent details, and will doubtless accent for millions the virtues of neighborly compassion. Fundamentally there is just one thing wrong with it. When an organist draws on the full resources of his instrument, as have Messrs. Capra & Riskin in invoking almost every great emotional appeal from the Nativity to The Star Spangled Banner, the largest possible music had better come out. Anything else may topple artistically from sheer pompous top-heaviness. When Capra-Riskin open up the cinema organ in Meet John Doe, what comes out is not solid but uncertain musical structure...
...Salt Lake City range is notoriously skittish. A heavy snowfall often knocks its radio beams out of kilter. In its 120-page crash report, CAB told what it had done to make instrument approaches to Salt Lake City safe. Three radio operators in outlying stations were ordered to listen to the range once an hour, be sure it was working as it should. The operator at Salt Lake City had the same duty. And just to make doubly sure, a recorder was installed near the Salt Lake City airport, recorded the functioning of the beam on a paper tape...
...been in on an exciting experiment. At i a.m., high over the dark Atlantic, he had tumbled out of his berth and into the navigating room of Pan American Airways' homebound Dixie Clipper. With President Juan Terry Trippe and other Pan American officials, Willkie eagerly watched the instrument panels as the huge ship droned along at various altitudes, feeling out strange east winds on her tail. At 4,000 to 5,000 feet the passengers' smiles were broadest, the plane making the best time...