Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Keller manufactured and wittingly sent out during the war defective airplane parts which later cost the lives of twenty-one airplane pilots over Austria. The executioner of the gods in this instance is Joe's son Chris, home from the wars, and his instrument is the last letter of his brother Larry who died off the coast of China. Larry confessed in it that his father's scandal was more than he could bear and that his next mission would be his last. It is only the knowledge that he caused his own son's death which lays Joe open...
...unless it came over his particular amplifying system, the phonograph. He could hear the sharp dots & dashes of the telegraph transmitter, but he couldn't hear a word over Mr. Bell's primitive new telephone-until he took it in hand and helped make a more efficient instrument...
...Kenneth Hughes opened the rally with an invocation and with an address declaring, "Sane men denounce war as an instrument of national policy...
...Beinum plans to fly the Concertgebouw on its first trip to the U.S. next year. One American who knows a lot about orchestras has already given his verdict on Amsterdam's. Said Leopold Stokowski, after guest-conducting the Concertgebouw last year: "A superb instrument...
Watson suggested Hemenway Gymnasium to Borgatti as a site, but at a price. The Band, according to the manager, was forced to use Homenway after attempts to obtain Boston's Symphony Hall had been abandoned because of high costs of instrument transportation. Outdoor rehearsals were also vetoed by Watson, according to Borgatti...