Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Corrosion. Rust and corrosion annually destroy some $300,000,000 worth of metals. Only lately has their cause been agreed upon. Not direct oxidation by water or air nor colloidal reaction is now blamed, but electricity set up in metals by the chemical action of contiguous water, air or (especially) the two mixed. The currents disintegrate the metals, producing oxides and carbonates?iron rust, verdigris, tarnish, "bronze disease." Dr. Willis R. Whitney, Director of the Research Laboratory of the General Electric Co., is accredited the founder of the electro-chemical theory of corrosion...
...Clementel, prepared for this reaction, attempted to scotch it on the spot. He declared that the extra currency was wanted for commercial purposes, that it would not be used to pay the Governments cash deficit, because, for the first time since the War, the Government has a balanced budget which takes into account every expenditure.* When Premier Herriot heard the news, he rushed to the Senate, met M. Clementel in a corridor, had a hot, short, strong talk with him. The result was that the Finance Minister remounted the tribune and toid the Senators in effect that he had been...
Following this reaction, the year 1924 in Russia was economically and politically rotten. The country went from bad to worse. Cooperative trading between town and village broke down; industrial unrest assumed alarming proportions at Leningrad and Moscow; the peasants stuck more closely than ever to their hoarded grain; the capitalists, such few as there were, were hounded into inactivity. On top of this, came heavy frost in the autumn before the first snowfall, with incalculable damage to the sown grain. Abroad, Communism saw an intractable U. S., a change of Government in Britain, that could hardly be looked upon...
...reports regularly at Syracuse, Cornell, and Pennsylvania. If I can get that many men out for lacrosse at Harvard, our prospects will not only be considerably enhanced for our contest with Yale, but there will be a team which will show favorably in all its contests. The immediate reaction to a good team this year, will be an added interest in lacrosse by the undergraduate body...
...evolution and religion in two different categories: one is an interpretation of facts, the other a belief in certain super-natural phenomena, an emotional reaction to that belief, and a philosophy of life...