Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hospital Bound. Charles, leading a strafing attack over the nearby Marshalls, ran into ack-ack. Windshield and instrument panel exploded and more than 200 particles of glass and metal were driven into his face and body. Blinded in one eye and drenched with blood, Charles made a perfect landing on his carrier...
...ever before, but you still find time for civic activities and civilian defense, and for your favorite hobbies- gardening, photography, golf, fishing. You have a radio, of course, and your favorite programs are Information, Please, Fibber McGee and Molly, and Jack Benny. You are likely to play a musical instrument yourself, and you admit you play it pretty well (the odds are it's the piano, but it could be the violin, clarinet or saxophone, or even the tipple, zither or glockenspiel). You go to the movies only once every other week or so (whenever there...
...free competition. On that latter point, the 19 U.S. airlines long ago split hotly. Against the 17 which have vociferously championed lots of international competition, Juan Trippe's Pan American Airways and William A. Patterson's United Air Lines have stoutly held out for the "chosen instrument" of one big Government-backed airline. In the N.A.M. the free-competition flyers found their strongest ally to date...
...Justice Thibaudeau Rinfret (rhymes with kin-fret) because of Canada's custom of alternating top judicial appointments between the two language groups and major religions. French and Catholic, balding Justice Rinfret, like his colleague, believes that the law is not an "affair of literal precepts but a social instrument...
Courts in general consider lie detectors too unreliable to admit their findings as conclusive evidence. Psychologists are equally skeptical of them. There are now some half-dozen such instruments, depending variously on measurements of blood pressure, breathing, heartbeats, etc., to detect emotional disturbances that are believed to be associated with lying. But, although some inventors claim better than 85% accuracy, proof of a lie detector's infallibility is obviously impossible to obtain. There is no way of guaranteeing that, in some cases, even the best instrument may not tell the wrong story...