Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bravely as a match flickering in the night, the Paris L'Ordre sought cheer for mankind. "Visit the Hostel of Three Mallets in the Latin Quarter," it advised. There, in subterranean chambers, the visitor sees medieval instruments of torture. St. Catherine's Wheel is most gruesome. It rests on a base studded with nails. A victim bound to the wheel was raised or lowered in relation to the base; as the instrument turned, his flesh was torn at the desired speed and depth...
...Lewis Burrie Swift, president of Rochester's Taylor Instrument Cos., which turned out 40,000 instruments for Oak Ridge, more than had been needed in the synthetic rubber and high octane programs combined...
...Work for Congress. Repeatedly, industry did the wildly improbable. For example, G.E. built instruments to detect leaks and tell how fast, and in what quantity, gas was going through the pipes, by merely attaching an instrument to the outside. Time & again, companies were asked to design a machine according to a "mathematical formula which they did not fully understand." Out of this amazing gadgetry have already come scores of new products, or processes, which have nothing to do with atomic power, such as new ways to dehydrate foodstuffs...
...Instrument. Perón also bludgeoned his way into control of a mouthpiece for his dreams and promises: Buenos Aires' powerful afternoon newspaper Critica (circulation 250,000). The strategy had been violence. Perón's plug-uglies had made sporadic raids on democratic Critica, had been met with fierce resistance from determined employes. One sortie was spearheaded by 5,000 street-fighters and backed by four armored cars and 100 police...
...anti-Apra pasquin pundit who had said: "They [Apra] could have been the masters of Peru. They had the girl in the automobile and the lights were out. And then the girl left them. For the crux of the matter is not to have the instrument but to know...