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Word: instrumentality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...struggle for constitutional liberty in England. Attention is strikingly directed to the modification of the original legislative, executive and judicial departments by the creation of great administrative departments combining legislative and judicial functions, which are likely to increase in number, there being no other way of adapting the instrument to modern complexities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Mr. Baker's Book | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

...University now call occasional evening meetings of their tutees at which either a student opens discussion by reading a paper, or a professor gives a talk, or both. Admittedly, those meetings are often disappointing, unsatisfactory. But, at least, they justify the hope that eventually the tutorial meeting as an instrument of education will come to be recognized as equal in value and importance to both the lecture and the individual tutorial conference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INFORMAL EDUCATION | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

...degree from the University of Geneva. After speaking a few words on the work of the C. I. E. in Europe, he has agreed to the request of the Union management to play a selection of Swiss folk songs on the accordion. Dr. Habicht is exceptionally talented on this instrument and has helped in many benefit entertainments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HABICHT TO PLAY AND SPEAK AT UNION CHRISTMAS DINNER | 12/12/1925 | See Source »

...discussion which followed the passage of the resolution, many members expressed the hope that the program would succeed. It was generally conceded that this move on your part was constructive, ambitious, and courageous, and showed that the CRIMSON is no longer merely a purveyor of news, but a useful instrument for encouraging and moulding progressive policies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Harvard Club Approves | 12/10/1925 | See Source »

...Chile believed a plebiscite would satisfy its warlike rapacity; believed that the arbitrator's representative would be an accomplice in a fraud; believed that Pershing would serve as a docile instrument to cover electoral malfeasance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Pershing Unruffled | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

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