Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...audience reasonably sophisticated that Maurice Browne and Robert Nichols address their play about the Shelleyan young physicist who discovers the secret of the atom, and causes an upheaval in the cabinet chamber at 10 Downing Street by his presentation of the consequences thereof. And perhaps in this play more than in most others, one is acutely conscious of the author's difficulties. The time of the play is tomorrow, and certainly any solution but the scientific one of a cosmological problem, and one which seems as valid as this, strikes an excitement-craving audience as a lame solution indeed...
...known systems of material bodies, from that of the atom which is a millionth of a millionth of an inch to the cloud of super-galaxies of a thousand million, trillion miles have been classified for the first time according to mass by Professor Harlow Shapley, Director of Harvard's Astronomical Observatory. The classification comes as a result of long research and careful investigation by Professor Shapley...
Science is always a lap ahead of popular belief. Newton and Darwin are today high priests of truth to the man in the street. Materialism, once a scientific theory, is now the fatalistic creed of thousands. But materialism, says atom-wise, germ-conscious Haldane,"is nothing better than a superstition, on the same level as a belief in witches and devils...
...game was a fight from beginning to end with either team lucky to come out on top. Marsters had what have properly been called five of football's greatest minutes and the "alert atom" of the New Haven outfit put on such an exhibition of clever running as has rarely been seen. The little Eli star is the niftiest player you ever hope to see on a football field. When tackled he lands as lightly as a feather, and quite as often as not he would skip over the sidelines just in time to leave a big Indian defender foolishly...
...Saturday can be taken as any criterion, it seems to have made a good start. The conquerors of Yale were at a loss to check the powerful drives of the men from the land of oranges where they had a comparatively easy time with Albie Booth, the Elis' "alert atom...