Word: instrumentation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...momentum behind the Department's cruiser-building bill (15 cruisers, 1 aircraft carrier) which got delayed in the last session of Congress and which, in the imminent session, appears impeded by the simultaneous emergence and solemn language of the latest and greatest treaty "to outlaw war as an instrument of national policy...
Boomed Il Duce: "Cinematography ranks with the printing press as a formidable instrument for the conquest and diffusion of culture...
...served in both cases is the same, viz., to relieve the suffering soul within from pain. In the one case you do it by severing the diseased portion from the body. In the other you do it by severing from the soul the body that has become an instrument of torture to it. . . . Suppose, for instance, that I find my daughter-whose wish at the moment I have no means of ascertaining-is threatened with violation and there is no way by which I can save her. Then it would be the purest form of ahimsa on my part...
Died. Howard E. Wurlitzer, 57, band instrument tycoon of Cincinnati, son of the late Rudolph Wurlitzer, who founded the Wurlitzer Co.; of influenza; in Manhattan...
...Kaufman's book is far from being good and the plot of the show is too foolish to mention. There are songs and dancing, the former less remarkable than the latter. But Harpo, when he is through playing the harp, peers like a prisoner through the strings of his instrument; he pursues a girl quietly wherever she goes; his are light fingers as well as light touch and he picks pockets with dexterous greed; on meeting a new person, he offers his leg to be held and he whistles strangely...