Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe that modern war is not an efficient instrument of protection. It seems likely that long-range guns, aerial bombs, both explosive and gaseous, and hunger blockades would so develop that the slaughter behind the lines would exceed that at the front...
...Little Entente, which was born to fight the phantom of the Habsburgs, has today become the magnificent instrument of France's last domination in Europe...
...demands belief in occurrences science proves impossible; what place has it among modern educated persons?" There lies the kernel of the whole so-called "Conflict between Religion and Science". There is no such conflict; there never can be, for Science and Religion have no inter-relation. Man's scientific instrument is his reason; his religious instrument is his mystical power. When reason is applied to Religion, there is naturally discord. It is as if one tried to play a violin with a saw. But that is enough of generalizations on this point; now for particulars...
World Court?"Pending before the Senate is a proposal that this Government give its support to the Permanent Court of International Justice. . . . The Court is merely a convenient instrument of adjustment to which we could go, but to which we could not be brought. ... I, therefore, commend it to the favorable consideration of the Senate with the proposed reservations clearly indicating our refusal to adhere to the League of Nations...
...ambiguous laws relating to "obscene, vulgar and indecent" objects or written matter of "immoral purpose." Four States?Georgia, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina? have no legislation on birth control. One State?Connecticut?goes the limit, no exceptions, even to prohibiting the use of any "drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception...