Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent meeting of the Instrument Clubs, the following men were elected to membership: D. C. Gates '26, of New York City: Winthrop Wetherbee Jr. '26, of Boston; G. B. Moynahan '26, of Mattapan; R. H. Howles '24, of New York City; Wilbar Whittemor '24, of Gardner; G. E. Smith '26, of Worcester; A. M. Carillo 2ES., of Havana, Cuba; and R. H. Tuson '24, of Dorchester...
...Evans, of Evans & Salter, concert managers: "We have always refused to allow our artists to broadcast because we do not believe the radio is as yet an instrument to do justice to great...
Last week, Lieutenant John A. Macready tried for a second time to beat Lecointe. He failed-reaching the modest elevation of 34,983 feet. His altimeter recorded 41,000 feet but the altimeter is not an absolute instrument to show height. It measures how much lighter the air is at heights than it is at ground level. On a cold day the air is heavier at ground level, hence the error. And it certainly was cold the day of the flight-the thermometer failed at 70° below zero Fahrenheit, at some 30,000 feet. Macready went still higher...
...Horseback. George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, authors of Dulcy and To the Ladies! have gratified even more than usual their impish itching to scalp the tired business man and expose his lack of brains. In Beggar on Horseback they have indulged their suppressed desires by murdering him. Their instrument of vengeance, an impraetical young composer, leaves no doubt of his pique by wiping out the stodgy manufacturer and his entire wealthy, babbitt family...
...justifiable anxiety on the part of the public, it is nevertheless the duty of authorities whose only excuse for existence is to prevent disease and suffering, to judge such situations on the basis of eventual good to the community as a whole, and not allow a well-proven instrument of preventive medicine to be destroyed or neglected because of an accident the cause of which is known and therefore under control...