Word: romanized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every month the Pope advises the 36,000,000 (6,000,000 in the U. S.) Roman Catholics who belong to the Apostleship of Prayer what they should pray for. The prayer for July: "Protection against dangerous broadcasting." Rev. James M. Gillis, editor of The Catholic World, explained last week: "We must send out over the air polite, mannerly explanations of Catholic doctrine, hoping thus to offset the attacks of the enemy. . . . The anti-Christians, who rushed pell-mell into radio and made it a devil's instrument will presently get tired of it, after wearing down the endurance...
...perfectly useless for a present-day Pope to act like a Pope of the earlier days and expect a second Canossa" (i. e. expect that George V will do penance before Pope Pius XI as Roman Emperor Henry IV did penance before Pope Gregory VII at Canossa, Italy...
...fireworks manufacturers last week estimated that U. S. citizens would set off some $4,000,000 of firecrackers, sparklers, roman candles, skyrockets, aerial bombs, pinwheels, squibs, flares, torpedoes, etc. etc. in celebration of Independence Day 1930; in the good old days, a $4,000,000 Fourth of July would have been a very sad Fourth indeed. Fireworks men mourn the time when a piece of punk in the outfield of a baseball park would bring to life a fire portrait of "Theodore Roosevelt, Our President" and cause great huzzahs to shake the bleachers...
...called Science to their aid to construct safer, saner displays. Sparklers of aluminum bronze which throws off incandescent but quick-cooling particles as it burns, were invented for children. Crackers were reduced in size (largest is now 5 in.), then fuses were improved. Skyrockets were made with stronger sticks, roman candles with thicker handles...
...Roman Candles. Cardboard tubes are packed in alternate layers with slow-burning powder, quick-burning powder and pressed discs of quick-burning chemicals containing a coloring salt. When lighted the slow-burning powder spews, finally reaches the disc. When this takes fire it ignites the quick-burning powder which makes a mild explosion, expels the flaming disc...