Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night last week the Hamburg-Berlin Express de luxe thundered out over its carefully ballasted roadbed at 100 kilometers an hour. A Berliner, who endeavored to appear nonchalant, picked up the telephone instrument which dangled from a hook in his Schlafwagen (sleeping car) compartment, and bellowed the phone number of his apartment on Unter den Linden through the roar of the train. His wife answered, intelligibly, if necessarily at the top of her lungs; and the details of next morning's breakfast were gutturally decided upon. The Berliner hung up, paid the Eisenbahn Gesellschaft (railroad company) 5 gold marks...
...record of one hour's continuous playing is a considerable feat in spite of the fact that Bob lost the contest in his many years of playing the delicate little six-note instrument. Bob has taken part in innumerable parades and has been a member of several orchestras. The most important parade to the veteran player was the Hayes-Wheeler parade which took place after the election of Hayes...
...made by others. Dr. F. W. Taussig of Harvard, the first Chairman of the Tariff Commission, an eminent economist and writer, attacked the use of the Commission for partisan purpose. He told a gathering of economists in Manhattan: "The temptation will always be present to use it as an instrument for supporting and carrying out a given policy-one of high duties or of low ones, of protection or free trade...
...that its cultivation will remove many of the ills of the present academic order is the mind-stirring thesis set forth by President Lowell in the current Atlantic. He looks to a test to serve three purposes: it may be a yardstick of pupils' progress, an instrument of education in its own right, or a fixed standard of achievement. "One of our difficulties has come from paying almost exclusive attention to the first of these objects...
Harvey C. Hayes, of the Navy Research Department, for a new ocean-floor measuring instrument, a Cullum medal...