Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took the wife back to their little paradise-on-the-installment-plan, because he could not order ice and milk. She was a good woman. And had she been as sensible as she was good she would have fanned him with a short, blunt instrument and gone off to live with the other...
...Instrument-maker Watt, of the Univ. of Glasgow−Steam locomotion...
...course, the League of Nations is not perfect. No human instrument ever is. But there are two things about it-it is a beginning and it is the only one by which it is possible to secure the means for which it was created...
...tones, and really achieved genuine new effects with them. Expert violinists can manage them, with a little practice (beginners without any practice at all). At last, however, a quarter-tone piano keyboard has been invented, by one Alois Haba, a young Czech pupil of the daring Franz Schreker. His instrument was the chief exhibit at the International Music Festival held in Prague last month...
Another advantage is that the parts affected by the ship's magnetism can be placed where they will be most remote from interference-even up at the masthead. The indicating instrument, which is not affected by magnetism, can then be placed at any convenient point, the two parts being connected by wires...