Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...direct and literal heavenly guidance on even such mundane subjects as Illinois real estate. But a divine revelation in 1947 would amaze no man more than Mormonism's tall, white-bearded, 77-year-old President George Albert Smith, seventh successor to the prophet Joseph Smith, and the mortal instrument through which a heavenly message would be received...
...numerous industrialists, colleges and universities, foreign scientists, etc. Some wanted to know how to manufacture the ultrasonic siren; others asked whether it could be devoted to such uses as sterilizing insect eggs in flour, the homogenization of chocolate for hand-dipped candies. An invalid wondered whether the instrument would pulverize his kidney stones without damaging him. The Long Island Duck Farmers Association thought it would be ideal for defeathering ducks. Some others who have been heard from to date...
Aluminum Ore Co., of Mobile, Ala., invited White to experiment at its plant in breaking down suspensions of solids, etc.; Aluminum Laboratories, Ltd., of Kingston, Ontario, desired complete data on the instrument's application to metallurgy...
...royal tooth puller, Eskelund was one of the few foreigners allowed inside the "forbidden city," where, by the somewhat purple account of his son, languished thousands of doe-eyed beauties of royal blood. Papa told Karl: "When I entered their quarters with my foot drill and instrument box . . . a whole flock of them immediately came running to greet me [with] a come-hither smile full of promise." Later, when the young dentist scaled the betel off the teeth of a native girl in Bangkok, he unwittingly started a fad for gleaming teeth. He was soon swamped with "shy little Siamese...
...into violence. When he saw the bloodshed that followed his call for resistance, Gandhi was overwhelmed with remorse. He called off his campaign in 1922, admitted himself guilty of a "Himalayan miscalculation." His followers were not yet self-disciplined enough to be trusted with satyagraha. To become a "fitter instrument" to lead, Gandhi imposed on himself a five-day fast...