Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several haunts but had never before had an opportunity of giving it a working test. Proud of its performance, Policeman O'Donnell recommended its installation in any surroundings where thieves might be expected to foregather. Insurance companies, he remarked, would lower their burglary premiums if such an instrument were located on the premises...
Denunciation of the Federal Reserve system's "conversion . . . into an instrument . . . of stock market speculators...
...this second problem, Dr. W. J. Luyten, of the Observatory staff, will leave. Cambridge within a month for a year's work with the telescope at Bloemfontein, where he will make plates of the southern sky for comparison with those made more than twenty years ago while the instrument was in South America...
...first new mounting for the Harvard telescopes in the south was shipped some months ago and is now being installed. It was procured for the 10-inch Metcalf triplet, an instrument specially suitable for studies of the faint Milky Way variable stars. The next new mounting to go south will be that of the new 60-inch reflecting telescope, which is to be the largest astronomical instrument in the southern hemisphere. Both the mirror and the mounting are in process of construction in Pittsburgh, and the mounting will probably be shipped before the end of the calendar year...
...very moment when it offers Europe and all the nations of the world a pact renouncing war as an instrument of national policy the American government is engaged in operations in Nicaragua which many people, both in the United States and abroad, consider as a war. . . . This fact eloquently shows that a mere pact renouncing war (whatever that may mean) as an instrument of national policy (whatever that may mean) is not going to prevent a nation from undertaking operations which a considerable proportion of the world may be unable to discriminate from war. Something more is wanted...