Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet urged Leftist Spain to think twice before sending bombers over Italy, warned Premier Dr. Juan Negrin's Government that it could expect little sympathy or aid from France in that event. In Italy, the controlled press fumed at "Red Spain." Benito Mussolini's...
French Physicist Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (1819-68) installed the first Foucault pendulum in Paris's Pantheon in 1851. That one, since dismantled, was 200 feet long. Foucault's idea was to prove the rotation of Earth on its axis. A pendulum which is swinging freely in space...
Ever since the 16th-Century Florentines first evolved it (under the impression that they were re-creating the Greek tragedy), opera has been to Italians what cinema is to the U. S. public. Nearly every theme in literature has been through the operatic chutes. A total list of the operas...
Charles Dow died in 1902 without having made much impression on cynical Wall Street. A subsequent editor of the Journal, florid William Peter Hamilton, embroidered the idea, told men in pegtop trousers and telescope hats that the averages forecast both business and market trends. In 1922 he published The Stock...
The physicists' talk was lively and brilliant. But they spent most of their time trying to find some way to mend the painful gap between Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, bickering politely about the validity and application of physical theories, asking themselves what physical reality is after all. Bohr criticized...