Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organization in the University has a parallel arrangement for administration and membership. The players in the orchestra fall into three catagories: Harvard men who are members of the Sodality, Cantabrigians interested in orchestral music who play a vital but scarce instrument like the viola, and Radcliffe girls who are members of the Radcliffe Orchestra...
...plane climbed toward 15,000 feet, Captain Earl Koehler, 36, the plane commander, saw a light flash on his instrument panel. This was a warning and an urgent one: the electrical bomb-locking system was malfunctioning, and in the bomb bay lay an unarmed nuclear bomb...
...free world has thrust upon the U.S. responsibilities and commitments that neither Roosevelt nor Wilson ever confronted. Ten years ago most U.S. citizens could share the traditional American concept of colonialism as unrelieved oppression and exploitation. Today's U.S. leaders are aware that colonialism has often been an instrument of progress, that the world's problems cannot be solved by simply taking an anticolonial stand in every circumstance...
...around to Sukarno in 1929, and after a four-month trial, sentenced him to four years in prison. But they had also given him a nationwide forum: in an impassioned courtroom speech. Sukarno denounced the "vile evils of colonialism" and promised Indonesians that he would serve them as the instrument of "historic necessity." On his release in 1931, Sukarno was greeted by applauding crowds, flowers, gifts. He asked for only ten patriotic youths aflame with love for Indonesia, and "with them I shall shake the earth." The Dutch, already in the long shadows of a dying empire, promptly exiled...
Struve admits freely that he cannot prove his conjectures. No existing telescope or other instrument can see planets revolving around any star but the sun, and there is little possibility that such planets, if they exist, can ever be observed accurately enough to determine whether they are inhabited...