Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Security Council with limited membership is "reasonable," but the Council "must not be an instrument of imperialistic domination by a few powerful nations." And it must not (as the Soviet insists it must) "allow any nation to sit in judgment in its own case." Arbitration of international disputes should be obligatory...
...garrison at Mendoza. Soon the GOU's influence had permeated the Argentine Army. The GOU's leading ideas were irresistible to soldiers: the Army was the purest, noblest thing in Argentina; it was the group best fitted to rule the country; it was the instrument of Argentine destiny...
...Bonde thereupon took the fish to Cape Town's Youngsfield Aerodrome, where he hung it among modern meteorological instruments. During the next few months, meteorologists will consider every movement of the fish in the light of instrument readings. Dr. von Bonde doubts that his informal aquarium tests really proved "anything definite," but he announced hopefully: "The Seevarkie must have a fair chance to prove its case...
...lesson learned in World War II is that a daylight bomber is only as good as its gunnery. This week the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. announced an electronic gun sight which, its inventors said, extends the effective range of bomber machine guns from 600 to 1,000 yards...
...strange stories about migrating birds. Most collisions occur at night or in clouds, when both planes and birds are flying blind. Migrating birds usually fly at night, stopping to feed in daylight. Ornithologists agree that they seem to have a sixth sense which enables them to fly even in "instrument weather." Curtin says that one pilot, chasing flocks of ducks, has seen them take cover in clouds. Once a covey flew round & round inside a small cloud while he circled it in his plane...