Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wanda Landowska, Polish virtuoso, is a modern harpsichordist. A fortnight ago she performed charmingly upon her quaint old instrument to the accompaniment of the Chicago Orcestra...
...great commercial navy, but it cannot shift the advantage of the English ship owner. Proximity of coal and iron to the ship yards is an appreciable factor, just as the nearness of timber to the New England harbors helped to make the old square-rigger a cheap instrument of conveyance. But the dominant factor is the place of the English export coal trade. A "tramp" carrying bulky raw goods to England for manufacture can always count upon a return cargo of coal; and to be profitable a "tramp" must never sail empty...
...intelligent, a talented musical composer, longs to stand up to conduct her own symphonies, longs to stand up and have a man play upon her passions. Men flirt with her, but shun her as a matrimonial hazard. Repression has given her a case of aggravated amorousness. A Russian surgical instrument maker, half genius, half charlatan, who received his early training in the Chicago stockyards, guarantees to cure her with a movable rack, if she will lie strapped to it for a year while her limbs are remoulded nearer to the heart's desire. This Napoleonic upstart, imperious, wilful...
...blinding snowstorm, crashed into trees high up in the Alleghany Mountains. A farmer of Curwensville, Pa., saw the plane in distress, heard the crash and at daylight found the burnt remains of plane and pilot after several hours' search. Pearson had in his plane the usual flying instruments, totally insufficient in snow, fog or violent rain. Fortunately, the Army Air Service is aware of this serious problem in air navigation. Last week Eugene H. Barksdale (lieutenant) and Bradley Jones (instrument engineer of the experimental station at McCook Field) flew from Dayton (Ohio) to Mitchel Field, Mineola...
...other valuable device is a distance compass. Any ordinary compass has to be placed in the pilot's pit, where it is so disturbed by the motor and other surrounding metal, as to be partially useless. The new instrument is an earth inductor compass, with no magnetic needle, but with a revolving electric coil placed in the tail of the machine-where it is undisturbed by any metal. The contact brushes are so arranged that a galvanometer in the cockpit, connected with the revolving coil, gives no reading when the plane is on her true course...