Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...education?supervised? is to be the slogan of the organization. It aims to be, in time, a novel variety of National conservatory of music: one which gives no stated courses and grants no degrees, but one in which those who really deserve advanced instruction in composition, voice-culture, wind-instrument and piano playing will be given the benefit of a rigorous Winter's training. Instructors and students alike will be constantly under observation, no matter how renowned the former or how gifted the latter...
...possess many advantages over the usual magnetic type of ship's compass, which not only has to be corrected by sun and stars, but errs with the roll and pitch of the vessel. When, during a test, the ship's compass oscillated two degrees, the new instrument was found to be free from "roll and pitch errors." It also moved freely and without oscillation when a sudden change of course was made...
...this stage of the game, entered Professor F. F. Brooks with an instrument capable of locating gold, which cost only ?15. By sticking a spear into the mud at the bottom of the sea, the presence of gold was indicated on a galvanometer. The Professor's contrivance changed failure into success. In 1921, 100 bars of bullion were recovered; in 1922, 900 bars; in 1923, 11,050 bars. Operations this season were to make a clean job of it, and salvage was small. All the precious metal that went down with the Laurentic, except for a small amount...
...federal government can not rightfully impose tariff duties except for the purpose of securing revenue. The high Republican tariff is an instrument for the arbitrary redistribution of wealth. We pledge ourselves to a tariff for revnue only, arrived at by a gradual period of readjustment, downward revision of all duties beginning immediately...
Admiral von Trotha, once a powerful figure in the Imperial Navy, recalled with mixed satisfaction "Germany's victory over the British fleet" off Jutland. The occasion was the eighth anniversary of the famed battle. Said the Admiral: "England's powerful fleet, the instrument with which she placed the world at her service was defeated by the young German fleet." But he complained that the brilliant victory was not utilized by the Military Commanders for winning a decisive victory...