Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emphasize again that [the tri-power European Advisory Commission] is an advisory, not an executive, body. . . . It is a piece of machinery set up for the convenience of the three Governments. It is not an instrument for imposing their views on others. [But] on . . . these three powers principally . . . will lie the responsibility for insuring that this war be followed by lasting peace...
China now had a linguistic instrument which could help rebuild the nation. But the literate coolie veterans of the war had next to nothing to read. So Jimmy set out to create a plain people's literature in Pai-hua. The peasants were generally skeptical, but eventually Jimmy's revolution spread to thousands of centers. In addition to reading and writing, many of these centers teach public health, improved economic ways, civics. They are an integral part of the new national educational system. Jimmy became an adviser to Chiang Kaishek, many a night of whose sleep he ruined...
Precision Instrument. Donald Douglas thinks this way partly because he is a hardheaded manufacturer, with no room in his head for nonsense-or for dreams-but mainly because he is an engineer, with a passion for airplanes as things embodying engineering designs, and a passion for precision. Dreams may be vivid but blueprints are precise...
Douglas is a precision instrument himself, a man of almost fantastically unvarying habit, and of a simple efficiency that is metronomic in its ticktock exactitude...
...that the Court has effectively intervened again and again to defeat congressional efforts to free slaves, guarantee civil rights to Negroes, to protect workingmen, outlaw child labor, assist hard-pressed farmers, and to democratize the tax system. From this analysis the Congress, and not the courts, emerges as the instrument for the realization of the guarantees of the Bill of Rights...