Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early growth in the revivalist, reformist 18303 stemmed not so much from its theology (a potpourri of American religious thought spiced with a characteristic 19th-century belief in the inevitability of progress) as from the personality of Smith. Divine revelation, his ultimate authority in all things, was an unanswerable instrument of power. He used it to create and maintain his theocratic dictatorship...
...also provide clues to the cause & cure of cancer, diabetes, hardening of the arteries, other metabolic diseases. It is like ordinary carbon but has a greater atomic weight. Absorbed into the system, C13 can be easily identified by its added weight, and precisely traced-with an electrical instrument-through the entire process of metabolism. Doctors may thus learn how food and drugs behave when they meet disease germs, or cancer, inside the body...
...Salisbury, Md., an amateur in the audience gushed to Violist William Primrose: "Ah, you can't get away from the old Italian instrument makers!" In South America, critics rhapsodized over the tones of his "marvelous Amati...
...worth of old fiddles which they take out and study constantly. To Violist Primrose a visit to their shop is "like going to a doctor. You say 'I feel this,' 'I don't feel that' and they will sit up with the instrument all night as though it were a sick child...
...Stradivari costs in the neighborhood of $40,000. Bill Moennig, who charges from $750 to $1,000 for his, is slightly cynical about it. Says he: "Invariably the tone of an instrument is rapturously admired until the audience learns it was finished a week or a month before. Then they come out with the bright statement that they'd noticed a bit of newness in the tone...