Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Free v. Chosen Instruments. James M. Landis, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, predicted that U.S. airlines flying transatlantic routes (Pan American, T.W.A., American Overseas) would soon be showing profits on Atlantic operations exceeding the airmail subsidies they receive from the Government. Landis discounted the danger of harmful competition from foreign-government-sponsored lines, which might force the U.S. to name and back a "chosen instrument" of its own. "What scares me now," said he, "is that we won't get effective foreign competition." Three days later, President Truman's Air Coordinating Committee, of which Landis...
...descent will be made, if all goes well, in the Gulf of Guinea off West Africa, some time in September. First, Professor Piccard intends to drop the unmanned bathyscaphe into the sea with a pressure-controlled instrument on board to bring it up again when it has reached a certain depth. If it rises as he expects it to do, the professor himself will take the plunge...
...defines himself as a parlor wit who thinks of radio as a parlor instrument ("some homes got them next to toilets"). But he seems hard-pressed to transport the highball-and-cigaret intimacy of his friends' living rooms into the U.S. parlor. His cement-mixer voice strains with eagerness to wow the audience. And while most of his parodies and songs are funny, the jokes which string them together sometimes clank (sample: "As for personal habits ... I ain't got none...
Adams has now lighting in the library and a new music room in B entry basement. Only Leverett has a tennis court along with its music room in A-11. Dunster House bought a grand piano for its instrument rooms in A entry and fixed the Old Dutch clock...
...have much to derive from the Moses of modern psychiatry and his followers. To begin with, Catholics must recognize the fact and the importance of the unconscious. . . . Having realized under the promptings of Freud the implications of our own doctrines, we should take the next step and recognize the instrument, par excellence, for investigating the unconscious, namely, psychoanalysis...