Word: appletons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cocoon. Two more men entered the case. Both had been accused by Chambers as having given him papers from Government offices. One of them was William Ward Pigman, former employee of the Bureau of Standards, now a chemist with the Institute of Paper Chemistry at Appleton, Wis. He was questioned only by the grand jury; in a public statement he denied the charge...
...Edward Victor Appleton has spent most of his 56 years with his head in the clouds. He has accomplished a lot up there. "The ionosphere," a colleague once said of Sir Edward, "is his playground." He proved the theory that the earth is circled by electrically charged layers in the upper atmosphere, came to know more about them than any man alive (there is an Appleton layer, usually about 140 miles above the earth*). His researches made possible the development of radar, won him a knighthood and the 1947 Nobel Prize in physics...
...Lady Appleton, dark brown hair and handsome, runs her Kensington flat singlehanded. She has traveled widely with her husband within the last three years. 'I always seem to be packing,' she said, 'and I hope this will be the last occasion...
...Appleton layer reflects certain radio waves around the earth. Sir Edward's experiments proved the possibility of round-the-world broadcasting...
...remember those who died for distinctly non-religious reasons. Some cried that such a proposal was not utilitarian enough; others called it too utilitarian. One influential group found it completely unnecessary, since the University already had a chapel which seemed large enough for the average congregation. And the Appleton family, who had given the chapel 70 years before, objected to its being razed to make room...