Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expertness of Holmes' direction and the intricacy of Anderson's arranging became more apparent in the near-perfect acoustic conditions of Symphony Hall than in the buffeting of a Stadium breeze. Beautifully shaded contrasts, a clarinet section which sounded as a single instrument, tremendously impressive weight of tuba and trombone: all these were clearly delineated in the Hall...
...Beck and Walter R. Miles, after long and thoughtful scratching of their scientific noses, presented the National Academy of Sciences with a brand-new theory. The nose, they said, is not, as commonly believed, a laboratory which identifies odors by chemical analysis. More likely, its smeller is an instrument or measuring infra-red (heat) rays absorbed by odorous vapors...
...range observation work, artillery spotting and courier service. ¶ At San Diego, Consolidated Vultee's experimental "flying auto" made its first test flight, circling the city for an hour and 18 minutes. The plane's 34½-ft. wing, housing a 190-h.p. engine and a flight instrument panel, is detachable from the auto, which has its own engine and a conventional dashboard. Consolidated Vultee had no immediate marketing plans...
...research, had been for years the leading source of experimental mice. Last year it shipped 350,000 to U.S. and foreign researchers. Deprived of the Bar Harbor strains, many researchers will have to start their laborious work all over again. To a researcher, a pedigreed mouse is a precision instrument. No ordinary mouse, nor a mouse of another strain, can be expected to react in exactly the same...
Avoiding a direct controversy, Niebuhr implied that numerous ambiguous areas in both Christianity and Communism were not mutually exclusive. He consistently took the historical slant on Communism, declaring that essentialy it was a protest against a Christian ethic which had made property the instrument of virtue...