Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oscilloscope gremlin. He is a fiendish little fellow with a head like a vacuum tube and a greenish leer on his face. Indeed, be is one of the most hateful of all gremlins. He sneaks in silently, and than you hear him laughing hollowly in the back of the instrument. You open it to look for him, but by that time he isn't there. You wish he'd come back so you could find him and get rid of him. He won't, though, at least not until you've got everything put back together again...
...Except for those two trivial items the jeep is a divine instrument of wartime locomotion. . . . Good Lord, I don't think we could continue the war without...
...ideal of collective security resulted in Wilson's attempt, through the League of Nations, to establish "a union of 50 juridically equal but otherwise unequal states, and not the evolution of a union from a nucleus of firmly allied strong states. ... If the League was a practical instrument, it contained an alliance, and all good and true men, including Wilson, were opposed to any idea of an alliance; if in fact the League outlawed alliances, and still sought to enforce peace, then it was an unlimited commitment supported by no clear means of fulfilling...
...faltered, the Red Army seemed to deserve more credit than the bombings. The Allied land forces and navies already doubted that bombing could be decisive; the public began to share the doubts. Was "the easy way" of bombing really effective, even as a harassment, much less as a decisive instrument...
Spies and 6%. In a world at war, in a world busily inventing new types of international currency and banking instrumentalities, the Bank for International Settlements has passed almost completely from public notice. (It was created primarily for the purpose of handling German reparations under the now-moribund Young Plan.) Periodically the B.I.S. is accused, in the House of Commons, the U.S. Congress and else where of being: 1 ) a clearing house of international espionage; 2) a shelter of international finance; 3) an instrument of possible appeasement...