Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Veterans of Foreign Wars has been the most conspicuous victim of the attack of the new movement, but the commander obligingly stuck his neck out right in the path of the arrows. Having branded the Veterans of Future Wars as yellow, Mr. Van Zandt was accused of being the "tool of Moscow" in his unpatriotic efforts to discredit America's future soldiers. Professional patriots belong to the lowest intellectual group in the country, and it should not be hard to beat them with equal success in future encounters...
Molybdenum, first isolated in 1782, de rives its name from the Greek word meaning lead-like, is known in trade as "moly." Little use was found for the metal until the end of the 19th Century, when it was tried as an alloy for tool steels. Sulphur in the moly compounds then available un did what good the metal contributed, with the result that tungsten became the stand ard steel hardener. Not until the War, when it was employed in guns, motors, light armor plate, did moly impress steel makers...
...glad to set down a few good things I heard; The Oath Bill can easily become a political tool instead of a patriotic one....Yet even, "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."...Especially it gives undue license and power to authorities to suspect and dismiss teachers....It puts all teachers under suspicion....It is a "nibble" at the Bill of Rights....Truth cannot be legislated...
...problems, are convinced more and more as time rolls on of the utter lack of wisdom in any effort to "train" for public service, as such, in undergraduate years at college. There are many reasons for this. In the first place, that man who devotes his attention to such "tool" subjects as personnel management, fire and police administration, etc., during undergraduate years must necessarily remove himself from the benefits of studies in a truly liberal arts course emphasizing the social sciences as such and not including undue concentration upon procedures, methodology, and the like. A broad backing in the various...
...both Mr. Paley and the Honorable Henry, and presents itself to the Federal Radio Commission and the legislature which passed the Communications Act of 1934. Broadcasting is too important a thing to be left in the limbo of moot. In the hands of a political mountebank it is a tool that can be insidiously dangerous to honest government...