Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clearer? What joy is comparable to that of discovery? And what is more certainly the evidence of training than the habit of close attention? Linguistic discipline, like all discipline, is irksome; but like all discipline it is wholesome; and it is unique among disciplines in that it sharpens the instrument of them all, our ordinary means of communication. The trained mind distinguishes; the readiest way of distinguishing is through comparison; and comparison with German, a kindred speech, may powerfully contribute to the mastery of our mother tongue...
...talk of "executive persecution" when Senator Cameron or the Atlanta officials were prosecuted; and there would be less in the present case if we withheld our judgments until we made a rough examination of the facts. At least we would not see the Department of Justice as an instrument "for personal or party revenge." L. H. Stone...
...first time. To him, the drama as we have it is the work of such a maiden lady, and he wishes to substitute for it something comparable to the obvious popular method of the roller coaster, an engine which he appears to think has been a powerful instrument for good in the development of our American culture...
Until 1917, no picks were used in playing the instruments, the beaujeaurine, which was plucked with the fingers, being the leading instrument. After 1918, the principal instrument of the Club came to be the modern tenor-banjo...
...Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven, cousin of King George, was represented by Admiral Mark Kerr before the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors. A claim was made for royalties for the Battenberg course indicator?an ingenious and invaluable instrument to navigators, aerial or naval?invented by her late husband, Prince Louis of Battenberg (name changed by King George to Milford Haven in 1917), First Lord of the Admiralty in 1914. The claim was sympathetically heard but was thought likely to be disallowed because, at the time of the invention, naval officers were not allowed to sell inventions to the State...