Word: instrumental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Erwin Rommel, the flashy plug-ugly who became one of the war's great soldiers, is Inspector General of Western Defenses. At 52 Rommel still enjoys a home reputation little tarnished by the thrashing he finally took in Africa. His command, the mobile task force, is the ideal instrument for his attributes of daring and ingenuity, if he still has them...
When he showed a subject a flickering light, his brain-broadcasting instrument recorded flickering electrical impulses of the same frequency. This experiment revealed "an interesting borderland" between the visual area and the rest of the brain - the image spread out over a wider area, into parts of the brain not primarily concerned with sight. Dr. Adrian suggests that this spreading activity in the brain represents the reaction of the brain cells to the image, i.e., an approach to thinking. But his recordings of this complex process are so confusing and difficult to interpret that "the present technique of recording brain...
...about his alleged dictatorial inclinations? The General smiled: "An old story. For four years contradictory charges have been made against me and the Committee . . . De Gaulle wanted to be a dictator, he wanted to restore the Third Republic ... he would deliver France to communism or that he was an instrument of the Americans, British or Stalin. I shall not reply save to say that the French would not accept a dictatorship, whether French or foreign. But the French want a government that governs...
Ernest Taylor ("Ernie") Pyle, warm-worded war correspondent, learned that he had been given partial credit for improving U.S. mechanized equipment. From Africa, to the jeep's makers (Willys-Overland), Pyle had written: "The jeep is a divine instrument of wartime locomotion [but the present hand brake] is perfectly useless." Last week Willys-Overland wrote to tell him that they had substituted a good, new internal-expansion brake for the bad, old external-contraction type...
...University's] function [is] advancing knowledge by freely determined research and teaching. We cannot see how the University could become an effective instrument ... of the revolutionary crusade . . . except by some kind of common institutional adherence to a particular analysis of what is wrong with the world . . . and ... a philosophically unified program of academic studies . . . that would serve as means. . . . We [ask you to] assure us that none of these apparent implications [of obligatory unity of thought] form any part of your practical intentions." Hutchins answered that he did not wish and had no power to enforce...