Word: underground
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germans who voted against the Nazi ticket in November 1932-the last free election in Germany -are converts to Naziism. There is still an underground opposition to Hitler which all the Führer's Horst Wessels and all the Führer's men (5,000,000 storm troops, party workers, secret police) have not stamped...
Some recent underground outcroppings...
Undeterred, he joined the underground movement against the Nazis, published his pro-Soviet ideas in book form, and was so bold as to call the Führer publicly "a German misfortune." According to knowing foreign correspondents, Herr Niekisch's misfortune was being caught secretly organizing a mass assassination plot against top-rank Nazis, possibly including Hitler himself. The plotters were said to have gone so far as to draw lots to choose the killers...
Under a confining pressure equivalent to a depth of 32 miles underground, a limestone cylinder was compressed 35 percent in length without shattering. Similar tests show that the flow of rocks under pressure is mathematically alike to the flow of metals...
Although some varieties of rock were observed to become plastic and flow under relatively low pressure, quartz remained brittle under the very highest confining and differential pressures. Studies of quartz, one of the most common minerals, are vital to investigation of conditions underground. Prior to these tests it was thought that quartz might become plastic udder the high pressures...