Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With all its imperfections, at which irreverent laymen are inclined to yah-yah, the English and American Common Law is the world's most sensitive instrument of justice. Its scales have been adjusted during more than 600 years of human experience with the same basic procedure: jury trial.b For the presentation of evidence, the raw material of justice, English law by the end of the 19th Century had arrived at a stable system of rules. Not so, however, U. S. law, which has not one but 50 legal systems (48 State courts, Federal Courts, District of Columbia courts). Without...
...handbook tells general practitioners as well as surgeons exactly what to do with the estimated 80,000 banged heads they meet every year. Practical tips: ¶ The human skull, an average of one-fifth of an inch thick, is so elastic that often a heavy blow from a blunt instrument only dents it "momentarily." Yet in such cases the tender brain is almost always wounded. In auto accidents, "when a head in forward motion is suddenly arrested by a massive stationary object, the greatest brain damage occurs at a point directly opposite the point of impact. ¶Even patients...
...main theme was stated at the outset, in all its length and loveliness, then in succeeding measures was broken down and developed. Sibelius uses an exactly opposite approach. He takes fragments of theme, broken bits of melody, and toys with them for a while. He juggles them from instrument to instrument, combining them in a variety of ways. Gradually they are linked together to form an extended and coherent theme. If one sees in this only orchestral splinters in a disconnected sequence, then a Sibelius symphony may be "fjord-like," or "stark," or whatever adjective the Sibelius cultists favor most...
...pursuits and bombers), possibly Grumman and Consolidated, which makes flying boats and bombers. Also in line was many another plant, if not for its own product at least for farmed-out orders, or for aircraft parts. To labor, to the overworked machine-tool industry, to instrument makers like Sperry and Pioneer, to accessory builders will go an undetermined slice of the business. With a backlog of around $900,000,000 in unfilled orders, the aircraft industry is too busy to worry about who gets every dollar & cent...
Although the instrument provides excellent records and permits observers to work regardless of natural eclipses, it is not adapted as yet to replace observations of the natural eclipse altogether...