Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adolf Hitler since the early days when the Nazis fought their political battles on the streets. A onetime schoolteacher, later an author and publisher, Niekisch took a leading part with famed Revolutionary Kurt Eisner in establishing the postWar, short-lived Bavarian Soviet State. When the Nazis came to power, his argument that both Germany and Russia were authoritarian and anticapitalistic and therefore should work together economically had numerous backers in the Nazi Party, chiefly among the followers of Hitler's lieutenant, Ernst Roehm, and Niekisch's publication was allowed to continue. When in 1934 Chancellor Hitler had Roehm...
Frank propaganda is engaged in by Rural Electrification Administration, which is lending $140,000,000 this year to build farmers' cooperative power systems. REA organizes "energizing" celebrations with bands, games, electrical displays and fireworks on the day current is turned on for a new project. Most frequent stunt: selection of a pretty local miss as "Polly Power," to preside over the burial of a kerosene lamp...
Violent and anarchic the life of Charleston Negroes may be, and fierce and swelling the power of mother love. But the Heywards, using an old sucked orange of a plot, have squashed the pulp all over the stage. Only the mildness of Charleston's climate keeps Hagar from doing another Eliza crossing...
...After he withdrew the needle, he sealed the hole with paraffin. In three or four days he removed the infected yolks, dried and ground them, diluted them in salt water, produced a remarkably virulent suspension of Rickettsiae, which lost none of its power when passed through ten series of eggs. "The technique," said Bacteriologist Cox, "is very simple, and permits a minimum of contamination." The simplicity of this operation should permit him to make thousands of doses of typhus vaccine in the time it takes Poland's Weigl to make...
...other explanations-that Prohibition gave coffee drinking a big boost, that high-pressure advertising plus cheap retail prices has put it over, that the nervous national tempo leads to excessive use of all stimulants. But it also may be that when depression nips an average man's buying power, he finds a 5? cup of coffee a sort of emotional ersatz for more expensive things...