Word: pendulums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partly understand the few known facts about him. Though of gentle birth, his father was a moneylender. Like every upstanding Florentine Dante was an active citizen, fought for his town against Arezzo and Pisa. In the battle of Campaldino he admitted that "he experienced great fear." When the political pendulum swung the other way Dante was first banished from Florence, later condemned to death. But he was never captured; he spent his 20 years of exile roaming over Italy, died at 56 of malaria...
...basement of the Geographical Institute, insulated from any vibration affecting the building by its foundation of sand, and kept at a constant temperature of 25 degrees. The master-clock itself, a three foot copper cylinder surmounted by a glass bell, encloses a tripod which supports a long steel pendulum; the air within the cylinder has been exhausted to 1-40th of an atmosphere. A slave clock (with a more prosaic appearance) electrically synchronized with the master every thirty seconds unlocks and resets the two-gram weight which provides all the energy needed by the big pendulum...
...municipal Councilors in England and Wales are elected each year for a three-year term. Last week in 300 cities and towns voters marched to the polls. The seats they had packed with Conservatives in the "National Government" landslide of 1931 were now up for election. How would the pendulum swing? If it rebounded toward the Labor (Socialist) Party, which has cast out Prime Minister MacDonald and fights his National Government tooth & nail, who could say that the Empire's political equilibrium was still safe? There need be no British General Election for members of the House of Commons until...
...Press, the concussion of that feeble peep hit all Germany. The editors wanted to say something but they did not want to go to jail. They got into print the phrases with which every Liberal German editor has been bursting by saying the opposite of what they meant: "The pendulum has swung from unbridled freedom of expression to occasional overdiscipline. In particular it did not seem necessary to us to keep from the German reader news that he could read in foreign newspapers, at times in the grossest exaggeration and misrepresentation. The complete outlawing of certain topics of discussion seems...
...under the influence of her sturdy farmers and Liberals who scarcely love a lord. Their leader and longtime Premier, coarse & hearty Mr. William Lyon Mackenzie King, has taken the line that it is un-Canadian to lick the Royal hand for honors. Not until 1930 did Canada's pendulum swing back. When Mr. King was ousted at last by rich, pious, Conservative and lord-loving Premier Richard Bedford Bennett, the set in Canadian opinion against Royal honors was so stiff that it has taken Mr. Bennett (a personal friend of the King) nearly three years to make...