Word: symbolism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...completely Nazified, that it was entirely loyal to the old Field Marshal. Only twice before, to Chancellors Bismarck and Bethmann-Hollweg, has such military honor come to any German holding a civilian office. Flaunted before the German people, Hermann Goring's new trousers were a symbol of the Army's belief in Hitlerism...
...little symbol e representing a quantum began seriously to restrict the old free & easy mechanics. Nevertheless the work of reconciliation began. Denmark's Niels Bohr ingeniously yoked classical laws and quantum laws to predict the probable interorbital jumps of electrons. His famed Correspondence Principle was postulated in 1913, was later abandoned when it was found not to work for atoms having more than one electron...
...extend this salute order to all adults in the State. "The salute is to be expected of every German," read Minister Rust's exuberant order. "Irrespective of whether he is a member of the National Socialist Party or not he will respect this form of greeting as a symbol of the new Germany...
...from behind, General Johnson engaged Charles F. Horner of Kansas City to work up enthusiasm for co-operation with the Recovery Administration. During the War Mr. Horner helped organize the "Four-Minute" men for selling Liberty Bonds. Like his old, his new job is to select a Recovery Act symbol for display in store windows and on factory chimneys, to make propaganda for public support...
...Catholic Young Men's Association. With religious frenzy mounting, half-naked Nazis appeared in Berlin wearing strips of animal skins and ancient Teutonic horned caps. Loudly touting a return to the worship of Thor and Wodan they celebrated in a Berlin stadium the "Festival of the Swastika" (Nazi symbol), seemed to consider their acts religious. Sunday found banners with the pagan swastika or Hakenkreuz ("hooked cross") stuck up beside the cross of Christ in a majority of Berlin churches, though not in the provinces. Preaching from the text He that is not with me is against me, Hitler...