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...piston is 100,000 lb. The catch is that to make apparatus able to stand such a stress is a delicate, costly and patience-taxing business. If the reinforcement is imperfect or if the materials are not the best in the tiny arena where the gigantic crush is finally focused, steel is likely to bulge like butter. Squeezed by 300 tons per sq. in., some of the contraction of a substance is due to a shrinkage of the atoms themselves. The complex atom of cesium shrinks most of all metals. Of 48 metals under high pressure, 39 become better conductors...
...international crisis slips into the position of history, it must become increasingly apparent that all the complications raising it above simple colonial expansion are directly the result of the imperialism of Great Britain. Many authorities are ready to ascribe the World War in large part to British determination to crush a challenging rival to naval supremacy. And certainly more authorities of the future will ascribe today's row, whether it end in increased tension or world-wide catastrophe, to British determination to guard her dominions from an enterprising upstart...
...great powers of analysis, Mr. Stevens was vastly shocked when, as the most active member of a Government commission on Canadian business practices, he learned that these practices are those of laissez-faire. Because big Canadian firms, when Depression enabled them to slash wages, squeeze marginal producers and crush competitors, did all these things ruthlessly, Mr. Stevens raised a great howl, founded what he calls the Reconstruction Party. It offered voters their choice of mild reform measures to be carried out by the more sympathetic wing of the Old Gang...
Assistant U. S. Attorney General Russell Hardy opened with a blast that the $660,000,000 assets of the defendants had been "maliciously and unconscionably used" to "crush" Fanchon & Marco, who had "suffered losses to date exceeding $200,000." Said he: "The conduct of the defendants in this case has put a stain on a great industry...
...loudspeakers in adjoining squares until fully 50,000 were ready for the evening's treat. As a prelude massed Storm Troops chanted an earnest little Hymn of Hate. Cried the choral leader: "We must unite against the Enemy of Humanity." Chorus: "It is the Jew!" Leader: "We must crush those who combine everything bad." Chorus...