Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enormous speeches made on their behalf, an unceasing stream of abuse upon the Western world. And they have accompanied this virulent propaganda by every action which would prevent the world's settling down into a durable peace, or the United Nations Organization playing its part as a great instrument to prevent war. Indeed, the conferences at Lake Success, perhaps prematurely, have become a sounding board at which reproaches and insults are hurled at each other by the greatest states...
...believe that Britain will rise again with even higher influence in the world than she now exercises. I work for the revival of a united Europe. I am sure that the English-speaking world can weather all the storms that blow. And that above all these, a world instrument, in Al Smith's words, "to weld the democracies together" can be erected which will be all-powerful so long as it is founded on freedom, justice and mercy-and is well armed...
...Weather Flying Center at Wilmington, Ohio, said last week that for 14 months his outfit has flown a daily, round-trip schedule from Ohio to Maryland. Radar and G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach) got the planes through safely and landed them in zero-zero soup. It was always "instrument weather" for the pilots, who kept their cockpits hooded on every flight...
...Regardless of the nature of their particular defects, most patients hear best with an instrument which amplifies all frequencies uniformly, or with moderate emphasis of the higher frequencies," the researchers reported in "Hearing Aids: An Experimental Study in Design Objectives," just published by the University Press...
...crisis was of prime importance, not only to planemakers, but to everyone in the U.S. The aircraft industry, along with air transport and foreign air routes, was a major instrument of U.S. foreign policy, U.S. defense. Yet plane production has withered away until the current annual rate is only 1,370 planes. Major General (ret.) Oliver P. Echols, president of the Aircraft Industries Association, told the commission that it would be "impossible to provide the 6,000 to 10,000 planes necessary to bring the air forces up to operational [i.e., minimum fighting] level within any period of time strategic...