Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plainly a community may not suppress, or the state tax, the dissemination of views which are unpopular, annoying or distasteful. If that device were ever sanctioned there would have been forged a ready instrument for the suppression of the faith which any minority cherishes but which does not happen to be in favor. That would be a complete repudiation of the philosophy of the Bill of Rights...
...Army & Navy technicians had given the nod to a highly portable little gadget called the Magnetic Wire Sound Recorder-an instrument about the size of a portable typewriter. It records the human voice and other sounds within earshot...
...about 10 o'clock at night, it was darker than inside a cow and raining like hell. All over a 70-mile radius our planes were coasting down, red danger lights glowing on the instrument panels, indicating there was no gas reserve left...
...Press Is Whose Instrument? In the great Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, where the printed word is in many places something new, where for 20 years there has been such an effort at instructing the unlettered masses as the world had never seen before, where the instruction given and the aspirations stirred conformed always to one overmastering pattern -"The press," said Joseph Stalin, "is the only instrument whereby the party can speak daily and hourly with the workers in its own language...
...pride in the 8,000-odd newspapers founded since the Revolution, in the gain of newspaper readers among the 77 million newly literate peasants of the wide grain lands and the far-flung Republics of Kazakhs and Uzbeks, Georgians and Mongolians. And in two years of frightful war this instrument has held Kremlin and Party and People together...