Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three young men projected radium's beta (high speed electrons) and gamma (penetrating X-rays) rays out of that mica window. Left for duplication were radium's alpha particles, the nucleus of helium...
...different place. At the Central London Hatchery & Conditioning Centre fertilized human eggs were bokanovskified to produce thousands of identical twins. These embryos were cultured in bottles, immunized and conditioned, decanted after nine months as lusty infants to be further conditioned by hypnopaedia (sleep teaching) into useful, satisfied citizens of Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta or Epsilon class. The Betas, Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons did all the work; the Alphas had all the fun. They travelled in helicopters, went to the "feelies," danced to the music of sexophones. In the Year of Our Ford 632 every woman wore a Malthusian belt, blushed...
...hard-fought, closely contested fraternity indoor baseball game last night Sigma Alpha Epsilon downed Kappa Sigma by the slender margin of 14 to 13. The game between the champions of the Alpha and Beta leagues see-sawed back and forth until the teams went into a tie in the seventh; the deadlock lasted until the last of the ninth...
...members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon team were P. M. Essig '33, catcher; J. T. Lees '33, pitcher; F. J. Jeffers '33, 1st base; Stewart Neill '32, outfield; A. R. Carnduff '33, 3rd base; R. C. Wells '33, outfield...
Inter-fraternity basketball games scheduled for today are Zeta Beta Tau vs. the Falcon Club at 7 o'clock, St. Paul's Catholic Club vs. Delta Upsilon at 7.45 o'clock, and Sigma Alpha Mu vs. Lambda Chi Alpha at 8.30 o'clock...