Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found with the Constitution of the United States as it stands today. The vital need is not an alteration of our fundamental law but an increasingly enlightened view with reference to it. Difficulties have grown out of its interpretation; but rightly considered, it can be used as an instrument of progress and not as a device for prevention of action...
Most envied airman fighting with the Reds in Spain was Texan Major Frederic A. Lord. He had been given last week a ship with the very latest Hispano-Suiza "moteur canon," swankest instrument of Death. This engine has a hollow propeller shaft and through it fires an oversize machine gun or undersized field piece discharging explosive, tracer, incendiary or armor-piercing shells...
Prince Edward was scrupulous not to betray his class, and to do and say all he could to uphold the Kingdom and the Empire, giving no opportunity to irresponsible groups of the masses to harm Britain. Long after His Majesty's instrument of abdication was signed, sealed, published and in course of certain enactment by Parliament (see p. 17) one of the greatest mass gatherings in British history was still roaring outside of Buckingham Palace, "WE WANT EDWARD!" He was not there...
...President sped homeward, however, Secretary of State Cordell Hull gave the entire world some authentic moments of exhilaration with a speech which made it seem that those popular peace men Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann lived again-also that the admirable Briand-Kellogg Peace Pact "Renouncing War as an Instrument of National Policy" had all its original freshness and bloom...
...first successful balloon demonstration at night took place at Blue Hill Observatory, in Milton, Mass., at 5 o'clock yesterday morning, under the direction of Dr. Karl O. H. Lange, research assistant; A. E. Bent, and R. D. Feiber, who designed and built the instrument; and C. B. Pear, Jr., who managed the radio reception...