Word: switches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...count of four," said the demonstrator. "I'll release the switch that fires the cannon. On the translucent screen you'll see the bullet just as it strikes the wire...
...been behind the attempted Nazi Putsch. A few years ago A. M. G. used to back not the Nazis but the Heimwehr, private army of Austria's present Vice Chancellor, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. It was doubtless Thyssen who caused A. M. G. to switch over to what, for the present at least, has proved the losing side. Reputedly last week it was the Heimwehr, furious at their former backer, who demanded that Chancellor Schuschnigg squeeze the 'Iron Mountain" for a cool $70,000. According to a Heimwehr manifesto, "If the Government fails to make...
...Gloomed over a warning to the House by President Walter Runciman of the Board of Trade that Britons may now expect some deflation of the boom which started when the Government switched from free trade to protection?a switch which enabled British manufacturers to recover much business in the home market which they had lost to cut-rate foreign competitors. All last week Britain's professionally pessimistic press economists drew dire conclusions from President Runciman's mild assertion: "There are signs that the home market has reached the saturation point...
...Kaiser-Damm Hall in Berlin this week gathered 7,000 German Baptists, 3,280 Baptists from 60 other nations. Six years ago the Baptist World Alliance had picked that time and place for its Fifth Congress. When Germany went Nazi many a Baptist wanted to switch the meeting to Zurich. But Baptist leaders stuck to their plans because they believed they were confronted with "a challenge to Christian courage and faith...
...Chicago courtroom last week Circuit Judge Harry M. Fisher stared at a voltmeter which had been placed before him on the bench. The voltmeter was connected to a switch, and the switch was connected with the courtroom lights. When the switch was closed Judge Fisher saw the voltmeter needle leap from 0 to 110 on the dial. What he had to decide was whether the thing that made the needle leap was tangible or intangible. There to help him, but arguing on opposite sides of the dispute, were two distinguished Nobel Prizemen...