Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baby-Face & Sugar-Daddy. Lawrence took only a few more stabs at Bertie. "What's the good of living as you do?" he complained. "Why don't you drop overboard? . . . Do become a creature instead of a mechanical instrument . . . start at the very beginning and be a perfect baby . . . Oh, and I want to ask you, when you make your will, do leave me enough to live on . . . My love to you. Stop working and being an ego . . . Are you still cross...
...what direction it is heading in relation to the station. The pilot need not listen to wearying dots and dashes in his headset. All he has to do if he wants to fly toward the omnirange is to tune to its frequency and then watch a needle on his instrument board. When the needle is ver tical, the plane is headed toward the station (see diagram...
...more regular. But CAA considers the system merely "transitional." The ultimate control system, which will become necessary as air traffic gets denser, will keep the planes moving like railroad trains on a "block system." Each plane will keep to a well-marked "track" in space. Signals on the instrument board will tell the pilot whether the block ahead is clear and whether the next plane behind him is treading on his tail...
...death, the devil and hell of their power? . . . Should we not see that 'God's design' therefore does not mean the existence of the church in the world, its task in relation to the world's disorder, its outward and inward activity as an instrument for the amelioration of human life, or finally the result of this activity in the Christianization of all humanity and, consequently, the setting up of an order of justice and peace embracing our whole planet? That 'God's design' does not mean something like a Christian Marshall plan...
...deal, in effect, indicated that Trippe might have been right in his campaign for a "chosen instrument" on the North Atlantic. Smith, who had fought Trippe's chosen instrument and demanded competition, now says: "The foreseeable volume of business does not justify the continuation of three competing U.S. carriers on the North Atlantic routes...