Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...holders of the bonds issued by the owners of the buildings leased to the U. S. Government through the Post Office Department are largely the small savers of the country, the same people who bought Liberty Bonds and who look with confidence on any instrument signed by the Government. These bonds were sold on the fact that, particularly in the St. Paul Post Office issue which is most under discussion, the Government had signed a non-cancellable 2O-year lease, the income from which was sufficient to pay out the first mortgage bonds. No one denies this or, I believe...
...hold no brief either for or against Prohibition. But I do hold a brief for this proposition: that the height of all absurdities of government regulation and tinkering was reached when a police statute was written into the Constitution. . . . If you write police regulations into that great instrument, you have drawn it down to the level of a city ordinance...
Tirelessly devoted to his movement, he was the chief instrument in bringing to his Congress not only the eminent psychiatrists of all continents, but professional societies little known to the general public?American Psychiatric Association, American Association for the Study of the Feebleminded, American Psychoanalytic Association, American Occupation Therapy Association, American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers. Discussed were manifold aspects of their problems...
Visual radio signals are received in a box mounted on the plane's instrument board, containing two white-tipped metal strips called "reeds." The reeds, placed side by side, vibrate vertically in tune with the two modulation frequencies used by the sending station. The "longer" reed (i. e., the one which looks longer because it vibrates with greater intensity) indicates the side on which the plane is off its course...
Though they were indoors, they beheld the strange gyrations of the sky. Though it was but 3 p. m. they saw the sun go down, Venus, the evening star, appear. It was the opening performance of the country's first planetarium. A planetarium is a complex instrument for reproducing on an elaborate scale the motions of the 5,400 stars visible to man, and the planets of the solar system. It is a simple matter to note the motion of the moon and sun because they are large, travel rapidly relative to man. But the stars are so deliberate...