Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high altitudes, can reach compressibility in ordinary level flight. The pilot opens the throttle. The speed picks up as the magic jet engine shoves harder. It is as smooth as oil, so nearly vibrationless that sometimes a special gadget is installed to tap on the instrument board and keep the plane's instruments from sticking...
...thing": an electroencephalograph, an instrument used to record human brain waves...
...theologians, with a diametrically opposite meaning, used to call Moscow the Golden.* Through it is entered the doctrinal capital of Communism, the fanatical modern faith which holds that man can assert the ultimate potential of his humanity only by denying God and yielding himself wholly to Reason and its instrument, Science...
...psychological effect." Spellbound and The Lost Weekend, full of mental quirks and jangled nerves, were right up his Tin Pan alley. To express one hero's amnesia and the other's lust for alcohol, Rozsa used an unearthly contralto wail, produced electronically by a radio-like instrument called the theremin (TIME, April 11, 1932). The theremin, almost never used in a Hollywood film score before, now is the industry's most fashionable musical device...
Heidt can hardly read music, plays no instrument well. He became a bandleader for a businesslike reason: to make money. He stuck strictly to his musical last until 1941, when he began buying likely bits of property. The big break came two years later. Heidt guessed that a profitable urban Los Angeles ballroom, the Trianon, could be bought by catching the owner off guard with enough ready cash...