Word: blows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazis, pet hate of all Marxists. Moving one small step at a time he has not offered the Socialists a sufficient pretext to declare a general strike, yet he has succeeded in gradually hamstringing them by taking away their surplus and by slowly abolishing their major taxes. No blow has been struck, but the Socialist Party may now be considered dead...
...comedies, Duck Soup has the disadvantage of adding nothing to vary the essential technique of their efforts. It exhibits Chico & Zeppo as usual, Groucho less flatteringly than in Horsefeathers. Admirers of Harpo should be particularly pleased with his horrid actions in Duck Soup. He carries a plumber's blow torch for a cigaret lighter, conducts a wordless telephone conversation by means of horns and bells, irritates a lemonade vendor by doing sleight-of-hand with his straw hat. Good shot: Harpo, impersonating Groucho in order to steal "war plans," trying to convince Groucho that he is a reflection...
...dimensions. It was about this dualist electron that Dr. Heisenberg postulated his famed Uncertainty Principle. The position or velocity of a given electron, he showed, might be determined, never both. Increased precision in one calculation simply magnified the error in the other. This principle of "Indeterminance," a violent blow to the old deterministic laws of Cause & Effect, went unchallenged until two months ago when another German, Professor Max Born, effected a reconciliation of quantum theory with the classical Maxwell equations-whereby, Professor Born claimed, the prediction of both velocity and position was made possible (TIME, Sept...
Inflating himself with an abundance of fine scorn, Senator King of Utah has huffed, and puffed, and tried to blow Ambassador Welles out of Cuba. Welles, he charges, has bungled the whole job, mistaken conditions on the Island, and in general pursued a cravenly pacifistic course. It is quite possible that Senator King's advice may be of the greatest value to Mr. Welles. The gentleman from Utah is a representative of the dominant beet sugar interests there; if the Ambassador will only make it a principle always to act in Cuba so that he earns the complete antagonism...
...Maxie ("Slapsie") Rosenbloom, light-heavyweight champion: a 15-round fight with bull-doggy little Mickey Walker, in which Champion Rosenbloom flicked, slapped, chopped, cuffed, hit not one hard, straight blow; in Manhattan...