Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question for physics to answer is: What is matter made of? A glass of water or a chinch bug or a copper coin is composed of molecules. The molecules are built of atoms. Twenty years ago the ancient Greek notion persisted that atoms were indivisible. Then Ernest Rutherford of England split nitrogen atoms with atomic bullets from radium. Seven years ago physicists were willing to analyze all the matter in the universe in terms of two parts of the atom: protons and electrons...
Newest gift of Viscount Nuffield, greatest nonroyal giver in British history, is to be an iron lung, free of charge, for each and every medical institution in the Empire. Part of his tremendous motor car plant, England's biggest (which made the millions he gave to Oxford University), the bullnecked Viscount last week put in commission to make the first 5,000 lungs. Estimated cost: $2,500,000. His inspiration: a movie made by Oxford's anesthetics department which he founded...
...Adolf Hitler once called "the ideal Nordic woman"; both for the second time; in Munich, a year ago. Because the best man, Reichsführer Hitler, had the records impounded, the marriage was kept secret. The bride's younger sister Unity Valkyrie has been booed and stoned in England, once was arrested in Czechoslovakia because of her open admiration for Hitler...
Since Quincy Howe became editor of Simon & Schuster, that industrious publishing firm has brought out three books expressing respectively suspicion of the motives, amusement at the manners, and rage at the methods, of the massive, muddling, Machiavellian empire of George VI. First was Howe's own England Expects Every American To Do His Duty. Next was Margaret Halsey's good-natured account of her stay in England, With Malice Toward Some. Most recent is Robert Briffault's The Decline and Fall of the British Empire...
...books like Quincy Howe's and Margaret Halsey's, English reviewers have an air of fixed agreeable tolerance. How they would take The Decline and Fall of the British Empire will never be known, since it will not be published in England. The most vehement book of the year, it consists of 263 pages of denunciation of England and all things English, her politics, smugness, selfishness, morals-even her birth rate...