Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page 7 of this issue you will find a two-column cut of the Cerebro-Optical Dynamagon Chonphuser. This formidable instrument is Reader Brysselbout's elaborate answer to the Nofer Trunnions story our Science Editor tucked away at the end of his section in the April 15th issue of TIME...
...States, England, the Soviet Union, France hopes to build a new world, based on democracy and collective security. It is a union of free peoples which permitted victory, and this union sealed in a common sacrifice can guarantee peace. The United Nations organization appears to us the most efficient instrument against the threat of aggression...
...Open. The French Communists have forged an instrument that is indeed different in its techniques from the Russian party or those of Britain and the U.S. In Russia (and in the Eastern European states it controls) the party is an arm of the police power, spying on the people, weeding out whatever might compete with the delusions of Kremlin propaganda. In Britain and the U.S., Communism is part pressure group, part underground conspiracy carried on by men who conceal their faith...
Most Powerful Instrument. Today, in black Benedictine habit, with clipped white hair and wrinkled face, Father Diman still strolls The Priory grounds, looks over Narragansett Bay to the sun setting red behind Prudence Island. The boys stand in awe of the old man; and he, who sees less of them than he used to, thinks boys have changed. "They turn the radio on as soon as they go to their rooms. There isn't half as much reading as there used to be," he says sadly...
...Father Diman looks back on St. George's and The Priory with an old man's pride. Says he: "Religion as a living force in deepening and enriching personality has been almost completely eliminated from [the public schools, and with it] the most powerful instrument for the development of character. . . . The greatest disappointment of my school career has been that [my" schools are] 'expensive schools.' I have never ceased to hope that they might become schools for the rank and file...