Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problems must be dealt with. "The difficulties," Mr. Stefansson continued "are first of all the cost, which is about 10 times as much as for an airplane, and, less important, the tremendous enthusiasm of the public for air exploration. The average man thinks of the submarine only as an instrument of war, and does not realize its importance in scientific work. Practically every branch of science is interested in finding out more about the Polar sea; for example, the geologists and anxious to ascertain its depth, a necessity in computing the average density of the Earth...
Besides John Mulgrew, Free State authorities were worried about another U. S. importation last week. Government speakers had had to stand a barrage of interruptions from a device known as "the rubber razzberry," an inexpensive instrument of defamation popular with Hollywood comedians and Bronx hoodlums. Deplored the Dublin Irish Press...
...that the formation had to be learned on the top of the Hudson River Boat on the way to West Point, one letter at a time due to the limited space. The large drum, which measures over six feet in diameter, probably had the distinction of being the first instrument from a college band to have an army escort, when it was carried down from the stadium at West Point to the boat by two squads of adepts...
...most typical great men England ever produced, Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) survives "as little more than the instrument of a single victory and the gruff hero of a dozen anecdotes." Biographer Guedalla, in 536 coruscating pages, has rubbed the rust off the Iron Duke, polished him till he shines...
...Koussevitzky orchestra had a long, symphonic introduction before Violinist Busch tucked his instrument under his chin, demonstrated a great talent worthy of great music. Busch, like Brahms, scorns meaningless display. In music alternately heroic and deeply tender, he displayed an immaculate, full-toned technique, an interpretative sense marked by the same marvelous simplicity and restraint that he has succeeded in preserving in his pupil, young Yehudi Menuhin. In Manhattan the Busch name is familiar because of Adolf's brother Fritz (they were the sons of a famed Westphalian violin-maker), who conducted the New York Symphony for a time...