Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...philosophy was a great balance between the exaggerations of realism and idealism which preceded it, and that the exaggerations of realism and idealism which are the dominant philosophical schools of the modern world, might find, for the second time, that Thomism alone can balance them, and form an unshackled instrument for the exploration of the universe. Mr. Maritain has said many times the things which Mr. Chesterton says in this book; but Mr. Chesterton's great verbal skill, and his cheerful confession of propaganda, are good reasons for saying them again...
...inflexible pieces of mechanism that have been manufactured by commercialists has increased insufferably. It is a curious phenomenon that the piano has remained the same for fifty years except for occasional experiments with double keyboards or more recently with electric tones. The innovating factor in the Clear-Tone instrument is that the ends of the strings are attached to steel bars and adjustable screws, not, as usually, to the iron frame, which is inharmonic to the tone of the strings, according to the inventor, Mr. E. W. Powers. A second sound board of maple, also increases the sonority. The inventor...
...enough left of the crushed gondola or the three broken bodies to supply the story of the tragedy. Guesses: 1) Winter weather had contracted the balloon's gas to such a point that it fell like a dead weight. 2) Ice weighted it down. 3) Some instrument outside the gondola chafed at the shroud lines until they broke, thus allowing the gondola to fall free from the bag. One discovery was made, to heighten the honor of Aeronauts Fedeseemko, Oususkin &Vasenko as their ashes were laid away in the Kremlin wall. A logbook and barograph, still intact, showed that...
...present the name of the Liberal Clubs carries considerable prestige outside of Cambridge, yet within the College the Club is regarded by many as a group of shaggy-haired opportunists intent on utilizing the Club as an instrument to forward their own pet schemes. These beliefs are fostered by the diverse political complexion of the Club's membership, ranging from these who would pursue political will o' the wisps to those who wish to carry out a constructive political program free from the taint of the soap-box- orator...
...currency on a gold basis. I added that whatever other countries might do, Italy would not deviate from the policies laid down by the Duce, and that, instead of considering recourse to ultimately ineffectual means for adjusting internal to world prices, Italy would continue to make use of an instrument thoroughly tested out during the past ten years: our guild or corporative organization...