Word: kaiserism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Iowa felt strongly that European war was inevitable and blamed Hitler more bitterly than 1941's Kaiser. Iowa would send the Democracies supplies and munitions...
Other recorded voices of yesterday: Kaiser Franz Josef, Queen Victoria, Woodrow Wilson, Mark Twain, Henry Morton Stanley, President Taft, William Jennings Bryan, Rear-Admiral Peary, Ellen Terry, James Whitcomb Riley, Vice-President (to President McKinley) Garret A. Hobart. Hobbyist Vincent is now searching for a known recording of the voice of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, famed uxoricide...
...Otto Hahn, 60, of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, and his coworker, F. Strassmann, had bombarded uranium with neutrons. In the products of bombardment they found something which seemed to be atoms of barium. This barium was the clue to something terrific. For the huge uranium atom, heaviest of the 92 standard elements, weighs 238 units.* The barium atom weighs 137 units. Since the barium could have originated only as a fragment of the big uranium atom, it was logical to suppose that the latter had cracked asunder, in two nearly equal parts. The release of atomic energy...
...Tyrant, Satrap, Pharaoh, Khan, Caesar, Emperor, Tsar and Kaiser have left their sulphurous trail across the pages of history. Today in Europe they have new names...
Only a comparatively small outlay would be necessary. To be sure, no Latin Croesus willing to endow such a Center--as a friend of the Kaiser endowed the Germanic Museum--appears on the horizon. But Hunt Hall, previously Fogg Museum, is admirably suited for such a use. At present Hunt is employed as an office and lecture building, but the Public Administration offices it now houses will soon be transferred to the Littauer Center, the Regional Planning offices could probably be transferred to Robinson Hall, and the Naval Science classes might well be conducted in Sever. Thus although some outlay...