Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says Hession of religious cinema today : "The world is in the worst mess in its history, and the cinema is the instrument with which to improve it." But to do it, Hollywood must produce 1) more Protestant films; 2) better Catholic films. Pictures like The Bells of St. Mary's, says he are so bad that "even Catholics object.' These films show only the superficial aspects of religion. The average man should be forgiven if he considers them propaganda. To treat a clerical collar as the epitome of religion is a mistake. There are people in the world...
While the "drone" circles or dives at the end of its radio leash, a television tube, like an unwinking eye, watches the instrument panel, sends the readings of every dial to the screen in the radio truck. Other instruments send their readings direct on their own radio channels, recording on a moving paper strip such things as the flutter of the plane's wings, or the changing strain on its surfaces...
...dentist strapped Sidney Joseph Perelman into the chair with six towels and forced his jaws apart with a blunt instrument. "Now then, where are his X rays?" he asked the nurse. "We haven't any," she said. "This is the first time he's been here." "Well, bring me any X rays," barked the dentist; "when you've seen one tooth you've seen them...
...rocket crashed to earth 69 miles from the launching platform, knocking a hole in New Mexico, but the instrument capsule landed undamaged. The data it contained, said rocket master Colonel Harold R. Turner, should tell scientists much about the outermost atmosphere, mysterious cruising ground of rocket warfare...
...bring Trippe to heel, Tom Morgan teamed up with Banker Colt, (Another board member, Manhattan banker & Hearstman John Wesley Hanes, was in, then out of the cabal.) They argued that Pan Am's fortunes were at a low point politically. Trippe's Chosen Instrument talk had so stirred up the Administration that even President Truman had stepped in to make sure that Pan Am would have plenty of competition (TIME, June...