Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...century ago, U. S. college fraternity life was quietly taking form in three genteel Eastern institutions. Phi Beta Kappa, first Greek letter society (1776), had already become nonsecret and purely honorary, with half a dozen chapters. Union College at Schenectady, N. Y. produced the next three: Kappa Alpha, Sigma Phi and Delta Phi, between 1825 and 1827. A Kappa Alpha branch was formed at Williams College, a Sigma Phi branch at Hamilton College. The earnest youths who founded these orders adopted Phi Beta Kappa's early mottoes, secret rituals, badges, grips...
...detectable electric charge. It leaves no marks in the form of ionized or electrified particles when it passes through a gas. Having no charge, it is not repelled by charged atoms. Hence it has a high penetrating power. It can shoot through a mile of air, compared with an alpha particle's few inches. It can shoot through several feet of lead. And last week scientists had new assurance that it existed, from the laboratories of Mme Marie Curie in Paris...
Among those who have been bombarding atoms with alpha particles are Mme Curie's daughter, Irene Curie-Joliot, her husband F. Joliot, Dr. Chadwick and Professor Walter Bothe of Giessen, Germany. Professor Bothe, bombarding beryllium, decided he was creating an artificial super-gamma ray. Dr. Chadwick decided that a proton and an electron knocked loose by alpha particles might combine, without any electrical charge at all, in one unit to make a neutron. This self-contained unit might be the ultimate unit of magnetism, having within itself opposite poles...
...repeated experiment it is known that any electrically charged form of matter will penetrate paraffin, for example, more easily than lead. Bombarding lithium with alpha particles from polonium, the Curies found they were knocking out a ray that penetrates lead more easily than paraffin. By empirical reasoning, the ray produced must be a new kind of ray, since it breaks all known rules. The Curies concluded their ray "cannot be of an electronic or electromagnetic nature." It is probably a ray of neutrons. Irene Curie-Joliot and her husband did much of the preliminary work in radiation that helped Neutron...
...father is president of Southern Pacific-Golden Gate Ferries Co. and Spring Valley Land Co. At Stanford, where his brother Samuel Palmer Eastman Jr. is also on the track team, Ben Eastman majors in economics, plans to go to Stanford's graduate school of business. He belongs to Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, an organization called Skull & Snakes, and the Board of Athletic Control. In May he was elected Captain of the track team. He has no special training methods. He eats what he likes until three hours before a meet when he gobbles steak, tea, custard. Calm, almost lethargic...