Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...courage, he decided to 'borrow the ideas of a lot of other writers" and make them into "the best book on public speaking . . . ever . . . written." This book flopped, too, and Carnegie decided that instead of borrowing from, or acting like others, "you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life." Out of the depths of his heart and personal experience, he drew How to Win Friends and Influence People. Today, wiry, white-maned Dale Carnegie is one of the world's richest authors and most famous men. He has recovered his faith...
...first-rate talent is going in the direction of the literal. I don't even like the word 'documentary.' You can't go on proving that a rusty faucet is rusty and a dirty alley is dirty. They are using the camera as a recording instrument. I want to use it as an instrument of poetry...
...place in this film, music is used with great intelligence. When father Hubbard hires some musicians from Mobile to play his Opus 3, they are good but not too good at their jobs; the piano is the good but imperfect instrument you would expect to find in such a home; and Opus 3 is perfectly what might be expected of a vain, surprisingly talented but utterly derivative, provincial composer...
...when Marriner left for Washington in 1934, George took over. Though headquarters of the new bank will be in Ogden (pop. 43,700), the Eccleses' home town, George hopes to operate on a much broader scale than ever before. He believes that "a bank should be an instrument of growth, not just a place for people to put their money." In helping the Northwest to grow, ambitious George Eccles hopes to grow right along with...
...with the Old. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the cement industry's basing point system illegal. It upheld the Federal Trade Commission in its eleven-year-old antitrust suit against the Cement Institute and its 74 member companies. Said the Court: "[The system is] a handy instrument to bring about elimination of any kind of price competition." In fact, said the Court, cementmakers had used the system to suppress competition by 1) boycotts, 2) price cuts (against plants refusing to play ball), 3) identical bids to cement users, and 4) opposition to the building of new plants...