Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present coma. Nor is it beyond the realm of sanity to hope that the United States will be able to force a reasonable settlement of the aged war debt problem. Whatever the internal effects of the abandonment of the gold standard may prove to be, it offers a handy instrument for Mr. Roosevelt to wield at the coming conference, and one which he will undoubtedly need if this is not to be just one more parley...
...Thomas was exploiting his hens. Perhaps he was making them work overtime for his wife's tea room in New York. But not relishing the idea of having his means of production tampered with any more than our friend the Boisheviki, Mr. Thomas thought he would employ that particular instrument of suppression which he has professionally contemned...
Engels has given a most profound definition of the state as a "particular instrument of suppression." He was concerned, it is true, primarily with the warfare of classes whose division was on economic bases, but his judgment is obviously capable of racial interpretation also, and his definition clearly implies that the existence of the state is incompatible with the conciliation of that class warfare; an inference which he did not neglect to elaborate. Mr. Hitler's state is simply the instrument of suppression serving the ends of a reactionary and racially religious class. The Turkish government, which has summarily placed...
...Captain paused in disgust, then turned away to read the teletype as that instrument started clicking. "Young woman missing. Attractive brunette. All upper teeth missing,' the message read...
...Flexible Instruments. The German press censor passed cables saying that Nazis in Potempa who took an unresisting Communist from his bed last August and stamped upon him until he died were last week pardoned, set free. Dispatches also passed the censor in which Jews were described as being commonly beaten by Nazis with an instrument consisting of a steel spring tipped by a small lead ball. The effect: maximum flesh bruises without actually breaking a bone...