Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that knockout is delivered from the air this year, its chief author will be Air Chief Marshal Harris. Except perhaps in the last rounds, the chief instrument will be his Bomber Command. His friend and poker foe, General Eaker, is just as much of an airman, and he had a great deal to do with presenting and championing the airmen's proposition. But, in comparison with the R.A.F., the Eighth Air Force and its Bomber Command are still small and young. American bombers first attacked Occupied France last August, first flew into Germany last Jan. 27. The American force...
...hand has two major functions, says Dr. Wolff. It is the primary organ of the sense of touch and the primary instrument of human action. In both functions "the hand is a visible part of the human brain." Both hand and brain respond to external impressions. The sum of the nervous, emotional and mental responses is personality-by the Wolff thesis, clearly legible in the hand...
...ocarina's Latin name is usually said to be derived from the Italian word oca (goose), but some authorities trace it to the Italian occare, meaning to harrow. The ancient Chinese, Aztecs and Incas all played a similar instrument. Its introduction to Western civilization dates from the late 19th Century, when an Italian named Donati made a turnip-shaped flute of baked clay with eight finger holes. He subsequently killed himself by falling off a balcony. Perfected by a German wagon maker named Heinrich Fiehn, Donati's invention became the rage of Vienna...
...available, runs on 25 lb. of batteries in a pack sack. Its ten miles of wire are good for four hours. Unlike a wax or rubber recording, the wire can be used again & again, because it can be wiped clean merely by reversing its run through the instrument, which unscrambles the molecules...
...Wire Recorder's potential uses, military and otherwise, are legion. Pilots can plug it into a plane's electrical system and record what they see-things they might forget to tell Intelligence when they get home. Signalmen can use the Recorder for intelligence reports. The instrument is, in effect, a simplified portable dictaphone...