Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the wrath of the corporation. A mock Platonic dialogue pointed out that there were four monitors at morning services to note absences and only one minister to offer prayers. "Is it not a shameful degradation of the worship of God," wrote the editors, "to make it a mere instrument for police service...
...Peace. For Old Soldier Marshall these must have been calculated risks. He could answer objections. U.N. was still too weak to act in such an emergency, and did not yet have the machinery to handle it. The Tsaldaris government in Greece was Western Democracy's only available instrument...
Conductor George Szell of the Cleveland Orchestra first got him interested in the A problem. What orchestras needed for tuning purposes, Pickering decided, was a pure, unvarying note with no overtones. No ordinary loudspeaker (and no musical instrument) emits pure tones: what comes out is a mixture of dominant tone and any number of overtones...
...musicians' legend: all oboeists eventually go crazy. Their instrument has been defined (by Comedian Danny Kaye) as "an ill wind which nobody blows good...
...lanes are getting too thick with planes. In the near future, most air traffic experts agree, something new will be needed to keep them from getting in each other's way. Recently the Air Transport Association of America described an ideal system for instrument designers to shoot at. It amounted to the sort of block system that railroads...