Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nichols further ventured that Duren should paint in a spirit which regards manure not as horrible filth but as a farmer's God-given instrument. Countered Duren: "I refer to [manure] but seldom. ... I regard it as neither horrific nor as beautiful but merely as unimportant detail. Obviously Mr. Nichols finds it appealing...
...real miracle of radar was what happened in the next five years: a job of U.S. and British scientific teamwork which created almost overnight a revolutionary instrument, and a vast industry which would normally have taken a generation to develop...
Little Waves from Overseas. To produce a compact instrument, small enough to be carried in a plane, that would handle the enormous power nee:'ed (surpassing that of the most powerful radio station), required a revolution in radio...
...radar's toughest identification problems-and one of the most fascinating sidelights on the great supergadget-was how to tell whether detected planes or ships were friendly or hostile. It was solved by an ingenious instrument called I.F.F. ("Identification, Friend or Foe"). When an I.F.F.-equipped plane is hit by a friendly radar beam, the instrument automatically flashes back a coded identifying signal...
Through all the hullabaloo, one fact was clear: the CAB had by no means settled everything by its rejection of the "chosen instrument" plan for postwar U.S.aviation. The airlines, urged by CAB to compete with each other, were not only competing, but also fighting (see below). They would probably go on doing so until Congress passed the definitive word. Sound airmen hoped it would waste no time when it sat down to work again...