Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will, soon be accomplished. Secretary Daniels has told of the plans for a flight across the Pacific, to be made by a government sea-plane in the near future. If that also, is successful, we may consider that the air; like the land and water, has been made an instrument of man, and may soon expect...
...Clubs, and the Association of Class Secretaries. The plan will be submitted for ratification in the belief that a centralized organization would be better able to keep the graduates in touch with the University than the present decentralized system. In addition, such a combination would prove a more effective instrument for accomplishing graduate desires, and would unite the alumni on a more uniform basis...
...liberty, and the freezing of the constitution into a tissue of specific dogmas and "shall nots." Certainly the moral good to be done and the physical advantages to be gained by the measure are more than the mere retaining of the fluid and general character of a political instrument, even such as our Constitution...
...does from so authoratative a source, is of immense value at this time. This is particularly the case since Mr. Root, like most of his fellow Americans, takes a liberal view of the Covenant, and considers it far from hopeless. He considers the Covenant as it stands an instrument of great practical power, but as yet far from a perfect one. If reports be true, President Wilson in Paris has already taken Senator Root's views into account. Let us profit by the fair and reasonable position which Mr. Root has taken and above all let us detach the League...
...sanction of the league should be not alone the combined military power of the whole world used as an instrument of repression but also the world control of economic resources...