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...back at his original position (he was an all-scholastic end at Newton High) and his speed and shiftiness may enable him to click effectively on end arounds as soon as the Crimson offense reaches the stage where it can absorb that type of play...

Author: By Steve Cady, | Title: Crimson Ends Can Run, Kick, Block, Tackle, and Catch Passes--We Hope | 9/29/1948 | See Source »

...uranium is cheap and plentiful, it will be used more or less in the natural state. If uranium proves scarce, the supply can be eked out by "breeding." A reactor will be surrounded by a blanket of thorium or the plentiful but nonfissionable uranium isotope, U-238. When these absorb excess neutrons from the reaction, they turn into fissionable plutonium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tight-Lipped Report | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Before the Philadelphia convention next June, a major job of the nation's voters will be to absorb, weigh, and compare the records in the Republican Who's Who of presidential candidates. Herewith, in the last* of a series, TIME publishes the condensed biography and political record of Michigan's Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHO'S WHO IN THE GOP: VANDENBERG | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Before the Philadelphia convention next June, a major job of the nation's voters will be to absorb, weigh, and compare the records in the Republican Who's Who of presidential candidates. Herewith, in the fifth* of a series, TIME publishes the condensed biography and political record of Massachusetts' Joseph William Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHO'S WHO IN THE GOP: MARTIN | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

Before the Philadelphia convention next June, a major job of the nation's voters will be to absorb, weigh, and compare the records in the Republican Who's Who of presidential candidates. Herewith, in the fourth-of a series, TIME publishes the condensed biography and political record of Minnesota's Harold Edward Stassen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHO'S WHO IN THE GOP: STASSEN | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

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