Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people who entrusted me with their cars and money the returns they expected. The joy of the first years became mere fatigue. Not only my body is tired but my spirit as well. They were the most exciting years of my life. I never considered a car as an instrument to achieve an end, but as part of myself or better. I was a part of the car, like a piston or shifting gear. At Reims in 1948, when I had to quit because my gas tank was ripped, I felt as if my own flesh were wounded. This feeling...
...Charley Dawes outraged his family by playing the flute in the Democrats' campaign band, while his own father was running for Congress on the Republican ticket (he won). Later, Charles ("Hell 'n' Maria") Dawes became a Republican but stayed a flute player. He used his favorite instrument to relax from a hectic career during which he served seven Presidents-he started as McKinley's Comptroller of the Currency, was Vice President under Coolidge, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's for Hoover, left public life at 67 as director of Hoover's Reconstruction...
Even if the project changes on tomorrow's referendum are passed, the Council will have still further to go to establish itself as a reliable instrument of student ideas. But enacting the new proposal is a necessary preliminary...
Second, education as an instrument of state policy influences student attitudes and work habits. Students are generally made aware at an early age of the need to choose a vocation; many secondary students seemed quite sure of where they were going, their major problem being not what to do but how to obtain the funds...
...lock on the Band Room door was evidently tampered with," commented Trottenberg; "however, it may very well have been an eager Band member trying to get his instrument." "There is no tangible evidence of arson," Trottenberg emphasized...