Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Challenge. But the atomic bomb was something more than an instrument to shape 1945's history. It represented a brutal challenge to the world to keep the peace. The scientists had created, and had successfully applied, a weapon which might wipe out with a few strokes any nation's power to resist an enemy...
...little finger. Other characteristic calluses: the house painter's on the front of both shins where he leans on his ladder ; the trumpet or tuba player's near the tip of the right little finger, where the finger presses against a small hook to steady the instrument; the writer's (or student's or bookkeeper's) on the side of the right middle finger; the French horn player's in the corresponding spot on the left; the floor sweeper's at the base of both thumbs ; the gardener's on the knuckles...
...Black took a look. Then, murmuring soothingly, he flicked a metal instrument that looked something like a small pneumatic drill past Mr. Tucker's suspicious eyes and went to work. But Mr. Tucker just relaxed. He felt no jarring, no pressure, no buzzing. Few, if any, of Dr. Black's fingers were in his mouth at any one time. All Patient Tucker felt was an occasional tiny, cool jet of air. When the session was over, he rushed out of the dentist's office to tell people that the days of the buzzing, overheating dentist...
...this week's Journal of the American Dental Association, Dr. Black is somewhat less inclusive in his claims for his new instrument-several special types of cavities still require ordinary burrs. But he feels that there is definite cause for good cheer among dental patients...
...Black has devoted six years to developing his technique. But he wants to tinker with the instrument at least another year before submitting it for general...