Word: instrumentality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...said in a pre-election speech: "Our policy must never again be directed against the Soviet Union." Moscow's most ardent advocate was thirtyish, fiery-eyed Hertta Kuusinen, daughter of oldtime Comintern functionary, now high Soviet official Otto Kuusinen (who stayed in Russia). Hertta Kuusinen's instrument was that familiar Communist device, a Democratic Front-composed in Finland of Communists, small farmers and a splinter of the old Social Democratic Party, once the country's biggest. Chief anti-Russian was tough Väinö Tanner, leader of the orthodox Social Democrats...
They instructed Navy pilots in instrument flying (in Link trainers), taught Navy airmen to shoot. They had become metalsmiths, radiomen, aviation machinist's mates, truck drivers, laboratory technicians, decoders and cooks. There are some 1,000 naval installations in the U.S., and at roughly half of them WAVES are at work. At the Navy Department in Washington there are more Navy women than men. In Hawaii, the farthest place overseas to which Congress would let them venture, the WAVES are competently filling a crying need for yeomen, aviation ratings, hospital corpsmen...
Pops Foster pounded the bass drum with numerous New Orleans marching bands, but later shifted to his present instrument, string bass, when he joined Kid Ory's Band in 1910. Since then Pops has appeared with Louie Armstrong, Luis Russell, and nearly every other outstanding colored orchestra. Fred Moore on drums and Hank Duncan at the Piano add a touch of youth to the Bechet group. Both grew up in the '20's-those glorious days of prohibition--and have gained fame only recently after leaving the Crescent City to appear at various New York bistros...
...indicator is a small black box about the size of a milk bottle, with a computer hooked up to the plane's compass and speed indicator. When a pilot takes off, he records his latitude and longitude on the instrument. From the data about direction and speed automatically received during the flight, the computer calculates the plane's latitude and longitude, without allowing for wind drift. To find out exactly where he is, a navigator reads the indicator's dial and makes corrections for drift by means of a driftmeter...
...instrument's most remarkable feature is its ability to translate a plane's position into longitude and latitude. If the earth were flat and longitude lines parallel, the job would be relatively easy. But navigation engineers have long been stumped by the problem of creating an instrument which would compensate for the fact that longitude lines converge toward the earth's poles. The indicator solves this problem by means of mechanism with over 500 parts...