Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marklewitz who teaches German ("Priceless literary gems were written in German") earns his living as a high-school physics instructor. Joseph R. Blanco, a Reo foreman, teaches Spanish. A high-school teacher and a radio service man explain the mysteries of Radio ("Understand this marvel of the Age"). Alpha Pearl, who teaches the school's most popular course. Stenography ("A profession to professionals-a great convenience to others") at the Y. M. C. A. building, practices her vocation by day at the Kirby Mercantile Agency. There are courses in Dramatic Interpretation at the Reo Club House, Lip Reading...
Good songs: "Let's Begin," "Alpha, Beta, Pi," "I'll be Hard to Handle." Typical line: "I wish I were in Russia. I'd put her on the Five Year Plan...
...will therefore have to be tritium. Protium's nucleus is the proton, deuterium's the denton, and tritium's (probably) the triton. After them, in Nature's system of elements, comes helium (atomic weight approximately 4). The helium atom's nucleus is the alpha particle which, in the full round of substances, again appears during the disintegration of the heaviest of the 92 elements-uranium, thorium, actinium, radium...
...disputes arising between any of the parties shall be submitted to arbitration in such form as the Advisory Committee shall determine. Clubs Affected by Rules Governing New Membership A. D. Club Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity Alpha Tau Sigma Club Owl Club Argo Club Phoenix S. K. Club Delphic Club Pi Eta Society Digamma Club Porcellian Club D. U. Fraternity S. A. E. Fraternity D. U. Club Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity Fly Club Spee Club Fox Club Styx Club Iroquois Club Tau Delta Phi Fraternity Kappa Sigma Fraternity Zeta Beta...
...Joliots suggested that the added energy might also have come from gamma rays which accompanied the alpha particle crashes. Gamma rays, like visible light, represent unaffiliated energy in motion. Caltech and Cambridge (England) scientists developed the Joliot thought. They aimed gamma rays at the hard nuclei of atoms. The gamma rays disappeared and two new entities appeared-ponderable electrons and positrons...