Word: atomical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wings Over Europe. "Up and atom," the scientists cry and in this play with its vaguely beautiful title Poet Robert Nichols and Stage-technician Maurice Browne have imagined a youthful researcher, the nephew of a Prime Minister, to have discovered how to control the tiny secret stars that whirl in thumbnail welkins. Perhaps the most encouraging trait of humanity is the ingenuity which it exhibits in making such discoveries; and perhaps the most discouraging trait in humanity is the lack of ingenuity which it exhibits in making use of them. The young atomist, accordingly, tells the British Cabinet about...
When distinguished Editor James Louis Garvin had well perused this charge, he wrote: "In the whole farrago, there is not one grain, not one atom, not one little jot nor tincture of truth. No such stipulation exists. The American gentleman concerned is incapable of suggesting any thing like it. The King's subject concerned [Editor Garvin] is known to be among the last men alive to whom such a stipulation could be safely breathed...
...parades, no salutes, this was to be just a pleasure jaunt and big game hunt through Africa. But Britain's leading special correspondents stalked in the offing, nosing after every elusive atom of royal news...
...seemed to think had a proper title to his gas wherever he got it. It would have been, they said, perfectly legal for him to buy leftover Army phosgene. With apparent sincerity Big Gas Man Stolzenberg declared that he would cooperate with the experts in destroying or neutralizing every atom of phosgene which he possessed by any means which they would agree to suggest. His loss, he said, would be about $25,000. The experts then began a learned squabble, some advising that the phosgene be dumped into the North Sea, others declaring that such a procedure would poison untold...
...Millikan pooh-poohed the fear of more timid citizens and blasted the hopes of more venturesome engineers. Man can never use the atom as a source of power or destruction by exploding and releasing its energy. This happens in Nature's laboratory; can be observed, measured, photographed; but the atoms available for the experimental laboratory are already in a fairly stable form. Splitting them up would require more power than they would set free...