Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second Stroke. Secretary Kellogg replied by despatching to Paris an alternative plan: 1) The treaty should not "outlaw war," but "renounce war as an instrument of national policy;"* and 2) The treaty should not be a two-power affair but a "multilateral compact" signed with the U.S. and France by all the Great Powers...
...Another statement on Presidential jack-knives was found necessary and W. E. Fulton of Newark, Ohio, whose present to the President of a pearl-handled whittling instrument was accepted and acknowledged (TIME, Dec. 19), can feel justly proud. Last week President Coolidge received so many jack-knives from other people that he had to begin giving them away. All were a propos the President's remark that when his term ends he is going to whittle a while (TIME, Nov. 21). That remark having been meant figuratively, even humorously, its maker felt he was receiving jack-knives under false pretenses...
Professor Theremin's apparatus can be played as a musical instrument. Nonetheless it is yet a scientific toy, just as another device, interpreting sounds as light waves and shown to the curious throughout the U. S. a few years ago, was a toy. And as the inventors of that sound-color machine toured the U. S. exposition halls, so Professor Theremin's associates plan to take him and his box on tour...
...support of the national integrity to which he was heir, nor yet that no man before him ever served in the Supreme Court at such an advanced age. This is a man who has seen the law not in terms a didactic decisions, but as the ancient instrument of justice, an instrument not unadaptable to the meeting of present and coming needs. At a time when too much insistence on the letter of local law has resulted in a national growth of contraditory decrees, the remedy may lie in fresh application of the old principle...
Then they meet the real owner of the ship, Lord Furber of Author Bennett's beloved "Five Towns," rich beyond reason. Count Veruda has been merely an instrument of the moment, used to entice Miss Perkins, Mr. Sutherland, or both into his gruff old master's clutches. Follow many pages of mystery while Lord Furber, Mr. Sutherland, and certain members of the crew vie for the nimble Miss Perkins' favor; eventually comes to light Lord Furber's motive. It seems that Mr. Sutherland holds an option on Lallers, famed dressmaking establishment; that Lady Furber...