Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radiation and radiation into matter. In 1919 the fact that radiant energy responds to gravitation as matter does was demonstrated by the bending of starlight on passing around the sun. And, according to the theory, not only radiant energy but energy of motion had mass. Thus a steamship or cannon ball weighed infinitesimally more when moving than at rest...
...best friends, Benito Mussolini has a penchant for crowning with a touch of the ridiculous even his greatest achievements. Last week, having created an entire new province for Italy by ditching, draining and damming the once pestilential Pontine Marshes, II Duce pronounced an oration niftily punctuated by cannon shots...
...excited peasants from all of Italy's 93 provinces who surrounded him the Dictator finally exclaimed: "Now you understand what the cannon's voice has thundered in unison with mine! Both the plowshare and the sword are made of sharpened steel, similar to the faith that burns in our hearts...
Please may we have fewer manoeuvering warships; fewer trials of new cannon and other death-dealers; more constructive thought on International Peace...
...himself as already belonging to the immortal company of great Speakers. To an old acquaintance who called him "Mr. Byrns," he said, "Call me Joe? or Uncle Joe. I don't like that 'Mister'." Washington chuckled, seeing only the remotest similarity between him and that other "Uncle Joe" Cannon, the late great Speaker (TIME, March 3, 1923). Wags suggested that to distinguish the two it would be best to call Speaker-Apparent Byrns. "Old White...