Word: instrumentality
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These heavenly revenue trends are not confined to trinkets. Sales in telescopes have risen almost 50% in the past twelve months, as would-be astronomers plunk down anywhere from $100 to $8,500 per instrument. Says Kim Davey of Celestron International, an optical-instruments firm in Torrance, Calif.: "The comet is an excuse for people to buy the telescope they've always wanted." American Express is offering a $799 telescope "for Halley's comet and beyond," which can be paid for in monthly installments of $39.95. Burton Rubin, who made a fortune in the '70s on his E-Z Wider...
Setting the stage for those landmark bills was the 1963 March on Washington. From a platform in front of the Lincoln Memorial came King's voice, an instrument of astounding resonance, mingling the powerful cadences of black spirituals with majestic Whitmanesque imagery in one of the best-known speeches in American oratory: "I Have a Dream...
...Harvard’s troop of musicians went to great lengths to support the instrument. A custom-built, bicycle-wheeled carriage regularly chauffeured the regal rhythm-keeper across the river to the stadium, and on one occasion, the drum flew to Princeton in a privately-chartered plane...
Ledyard decided to walk through both Europe and Asia, and, as if that were not enough, traverse the still-undiscovered western half of North America. Jefferson suggested that Ledyard have a 12-inch ruler tattooed on his arm so he could measure longitude without an instrument. (Ledyard rebuffed the suggestion...
Ledyard decided to walk through both Europe and Asia, and, as if that were not enough, traverse the still-undiscovered western half of North America. Jefferson suggested that Ledyard have a 12-inch ruler tattooed on his arm so he could measure longitude without an instrument. (Ledyard rebuffed the suggestion...