Word: weapon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ogre has yet another weapon. The terrific force of his ally, the wind, against a plane in flight is sufficient to hold ice particles against the rubber by atmospheric pressure, although there is no actual adhesion. The ice will not remove itself. Ingeniously, the experimenters ran an air tube through the overshoe beneath the oil-holding layer. A flip of a small pump in the pilot's cockpit slightly inflates the tube, budging the ice, which is immediately blown away as the vacuum breaks...
Taboo and Spinning. Up to the time Alfred Emanuel Smith ran for President, U. S. journalists were prevented by taboo from writing religious facts into political despatches, even if they thought them paramount. Taboo keeps off the front page Mr. Gandhi's use of Christian acts as a weapon against men with Christian beliefs. Only in exceptional publications like Asia (U. S. monthly) has the religious side of India's passive battle with England been described at graphic length by men like "Upton Close" (pseudonym of Joseph Washington Hall, probably the greatest historian of contemporary Asia, certainly the one closest...
...Recpolism." As an economic weapon the spinning wheel may be mere butting against a wall, but it is also the symbol of Statesman Gandhi's political program of "non-cooperation." The man is in fact a triple personality: Saint, Anti-Machinist, Statesman. He insists upon mixing up Religion, Economics and Politics into something before which the Anglo-Saxon stands puzzled and aghast, unwilling and unable to give it an English name. If Englishmen were Germans they would call what Mr. Gandhi is driving at "recpolism" (R?eligion, EC?onomics, Pol?itics...
...itself in crying, "Hush, hush," and trying to silence widespread dissatisfaction by regretting a "public discussion of affairs not directly the affairs of the public" and calling "the issues too grave for sensational discussion by open letters." This policy falls to realize that public opinion is the most effective weapon to obtain results in a situation like this where the employer follows a close-fisted policy of silence. Public opinion guides our leaders in matters ranging from international disarmament to the wearing of pajamas in city streets. It was by public discussion that night-work for women was banned, that...
...more than 300 years the Crusades went on; 2,000,000 men, women, children died because of them. The only really successful Crusade was the first, the one Author Lamb tells about: "... a migration, and a journey, and war. All kinds of people joined the marchers, lords and vagabonds, weapon men and peasants, proud ladies and tavern drabs. ... On the shoulders of their jackets they wore a cross, sewn out of cloth, and because of this they were called the cruciati, or cross-bearers." The Turks called them Franks, because most of them, especially in the First Crusade, were French...