Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scattered, dissipated, disorganized. Small reorganizations of energy are possible but always at the expense of a little greater disorganization. In such wise the total energy must go on being shuffled until no further shuffling is possible and its distribution is completely chaotic. Then the Universe will be a "uniform featureless mass in thermodynamic equilibrium"-a warmish, formless soup of aimless atoms and radiation in which nothing ever happens and Time, having lost every shred of meaning, rolls wearily on to infinity...
Next shot of Berlin romance after the Dark Age beheading last week came when Nazi No. 2 was awakened with a brass band serenade, for it was his wedding morn. As every German knows, Nazi No. 1 eschews pomp, never wears anything more pretentious than a corporal's uniform, eats no meat, never smokes, drinks nothing stronger than beer. Contrariwise No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring crowds every waking moment with pomp and circumstance, changes from gorgeous to still more gorgeous uniforms half a dozen times a day, stuffs his fat but mighty-muscled frame with much...
...this General Göring had invented a completely new uniform with what seemed to be a great white bib jutting from under his lantern jaw. With no time to change uniforms at the City Hall, he whipped off his bib, snapped on a different detachable chestload of medals, donned a shimmering white scarf across his blue-grey chest...
...look at turtles, snakes, lizards and bats which had been frozen for four months and warmed back to life. The new technique involves quick freezing of the outside of the creature, slow penetration of the cold to the vitals. While sudden or "one-sided" warming was fatal, gradual and uniform warming brought successful revival...
...Heil Goring!" roared 10,000 Danzigers as Germany's beefy, bull-necked "General of the Flyers" arrived in the brand new uniform he designed and created after adding that title to his collection of high offices (TIME, March...