Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secrets Bill, which would make all existing censorship seem downright lax, would make it a criminal offense to "communicate, divulge or publish to any person, in whole or in part, copies or the contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning of any file, instrument, letter, memorandum, book, pamphlet, paper, document, manuscript, map, picture, plan, record or other writing" declared secret or confidential by any department of the Government. It was a gag bill, with a touch of the garrote...
...Cessna Aircraft in Kansas women saw, sand, nail and glue wood; sew, stretch on and dope the covering fabric; install the instrument board and radio...
...celestial navigation. . . . Yet the testimony of his own journals proves that the simple method of finding latitude from a meridional observation of the sun . . . was unknown to Columbus." He was unable to use the newly invented astrolabe, and probably had none aboard. The common quadrant was his only instrument of celestial navigation. Mostly he sailed by dead reckoning, "which means simply laying down your compass courses and estimated distances on a chart...
Dedicated on Tuesday by President Comacho of Mexico, the observatory boasts a telescope that was constructed under the direction of members of the department. It was intended to be an exact twin of an instrument already installed here, but the builders over-estimated the amount that would be required to trim the edges of the lends, and so unintentionally produced what has been long hailed as the largest telescope of its kind in the world...
...nights before an enthusiastic mixed audience which doesn't miss the little dance floor that isn't there. For the past week such Ellington notables as Ben Webster and Lawrence. Brown have been sitting in with the boys regularly--high tribute in itself. There are interesting soloists on every instrument, but at least when I was there Frankie led all the rest. Last Monday, after lending Rex Steward his trumpet for a feverish ten minutes, Frankie, who always takes the last solo on each number, improvised chorus after chorus with the full, rich tone he induces from his open horn...