Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present standard of weight and fineness." Each insists that Congress has arbitrarily interfered with contractual rights and that the whole scheme is but a bald proposal to relieve debtors at the expense of creditors, and as such amounts to deprivation of property without due process of law. The only solid line of defense for the Government rests in the supposition that the sovereign power over money and foreign commerce must not be hamstrung by pre-existing arrangements by contract. Congress, New Dealers contend, may abrogate rights arising under a contract when such action is reasonably necessary to carry out some...
Among characteristic U. S. luxuries are jail cell doors of iron or steel bars. Considered fantastically extravagant abroad, these permit the U. S. jailbird to see out, give him a feeling of proximity to other human beings as they pass up & down the corridor. In Europe cell doors are solid, cheap, have a peephole closed by a metal flap. Day & night, usually at 20 minute intervals, the prisoner hears the flap click, knows that he is being peeped at by his guards. This makes most prisoners nervous, has come to be accepted as a prison commonplace. In Marseille last week...
Turning to the Jew, the Protestant inquired if the Jews are a solid bloc...
...said the Jew. "The Jew is to be classed just as any other group, because, instead of being a solid bloc, they are in disunion. There are good Jews and bad Jews; rich Jews and poor Jews. . . . The tragedy is that every Jew wants to be a leader...
...temperature. Is it not conceivable that pressure's decelerating effect on aging comes about through interference with the diffusion process? High hydrostatic pressures, as we know, compress the metal lattice, in this case, the solvent metal lattice; conceivably the 'viscosity' of, and the difficulty of atomic movement within, the solid solution is proportionately increased, Diffusion then becomes slower and the progress of age-hardening retarded...