Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet. There were scattered clouds at 200, visibility was two miles. Wind: north northeast 6 (miles an hour). With eleven passengers behind in berths and seats, Captain Scott and his co-pilot had a job on their hands that has long since ceased to worry good airmen: an instrument landing...
...published a long arti cle solemnly denying that its Axis planned to attack the U. S.. as solemnly accused the U. S. of trying to provoke an attack. "This is the hour when the Three-Power Pact of Berlin has found its renewed, final justification as a powerful instrument of common defense against aggression," wrote Berlin-Rome-Tokyo. "Whoever feels himself affected . . . has aggressive intentions. Nor does President Roosevelt make any concealment of these intentions. His only worry is that the nations of the Three-Power Pact do not permit themselves to be provoked. . . . If peaceful relations between...
Here are my qualifications, such as they are, to discuss this much mooted question. I have been playing the violin (excepting only swinglanguage, a definite article precedes the name of an instrument) for nigh on ten years, and have been listening to jazz with steadily increasing interest for three...
...from Oran, this tacit invitation was received with a surly growl by Vichy. Said Minister of Colonies Rear Admiral René Platon: "Despite British assurances that these countries were to be handed back to us, I am convinced Britain wanted to appropriate our colonies as a sort of barter instrument in the event a compromise peace was offered them...
...began to get out, my goggles were shipped off and my helmet began to lift up in the slip stream; I realized I hadn't undone my straps so I pulled out the retain ing pin and stood up, standing on anything which came handy (the seat, the instrument panel or the stick, I don't know really...