Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report on the academic year which ends this afternoon. Some of you with grave responsibility for war and postwar affairs heavy on your shoulders may feel that I have been speaking of relatively trivial academic matters. If so, I beg to differ. Universal education is the great instrument created by American democracy to secure the foundations of a republic of free men. Our colleges and universities are an integral part of this system which has no equivalent in other lands. We are more closely linked to the national life, I believe, than the corresponding institutions in other countries...
...delegates were trying to shape into a world organization had been baked hard in history's furnace. That it yielded at all to the necessities of the future was because every nation present, from Russia to Ecuador, wanted peace and recognized a United Nations organization as an indispensable instrument for getting...
...Admiral of Flensburg. The chief instrument and executor of German surrender policy was Grand Admiral Karl Dbnitz. In retrospect, his rise to this eminence of disaster was revealing...
There was little evidence that Trippe's words changed anyone's mind. The committee wound up its hearings with a majority still opposed to Juan Trippe's chosen instrument plan, still in favor of a U.S. policy of regulated competition...
...American Airways' usually calm Juan Terry Trippe was quietly indignant as he appeared before a Senate subcommittee last week. The reason: the committee had been told that the high operating costs of Pan Am are the best argument against Trippe's monopolistic chosen instrument (TIME, April 23). Now it was Trippe's turn to give his side...