Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long Odds. As a precision instrument of war the robot is something to make soldiers weep. It probably cannot be "aimed" at any target smaller than a fair-sized city. The Germans themselves admitted that it could not be used on the Normandy battleground without endangering their own troops...
...this huge and hugely complicated bomber, Boeing did away with a frequent source of pilot's gripe-an overladen instrument panel. The pilot and copilot have before them only the instruments necessary for taking off, flying and landing. The crew of eleven includes a flight engineer who has a big instrument panel of his own, and whose job is to keep track of engine performance. Since long-range flights mean long, fatiguing hours in the air, the ship carries chairs cushioned with sponge rubber and bunks in which unoccupied crew members may rest. The cabin is sound-insulated...
...Heifetz of the guitar is a stooped, bespectacled, mop-haired Spaniard named Andrés Segovia, who has, almost singlehanded, raised the guitar to the status of a concert instrument. A graduate of Spain's Granada Musical Institute, Segovia plays intricate Bach fugues and Handel gavottes with an agility and subtlety that has astounded critics. Segovia never deigns to play flamenco music...
...makes up its mind about air policy. But it was clear that Pogue, who favors plenty of competition, had Presidential approval to hand out enough franchises to assure competition on international routes. This was direct evidence that the Administration is steadily pushing into the background the so-called "chosen-instrument" policy, Juan Trippe's Pan-American program (TIME, Nov. 8). Eventually, of course, Congress, not CAB, must make the final decision on "chosen instrument" v. free-for-all competition. Pogue's action also meant that the U.S. will not lag in the coming international air fight...
...Whether the press survives as a vital instrument of democracy will depend upon the wisdom and temper of its owners. Theirs it is to decide whether they shall . . . fight the people's battles . . . or fight the people for the interests; whether they shall administer a trusteeship or exploit a privilege...