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Word: atomics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started a mania for singular cases, started a craving few addicts restrain, started a saga of amateur aces, whimsical, taciturn, dashing, urbane . . ." Holmes Addict Christopher Morley (see BOOKS), who helped found the Baker Street Irregulars in the U.S., contributed a satire on espionage in Washington and the atom bomb. Oldtime (80) shudder man Algernon Blackwood wrote a story of horror in a child's nursery that was reminiscent of The Turn of the Screw. Said Editor Hall: "We want to produce the Rolls-Royce of detective magazines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hedunit | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...just three weeks ago Hickenlooper himself had publicly praised the "record of loyalty and character in this whole project." With a patient confidence, Lilienthal began to take Hickenlooper's charges apart. For one thing, Hickenlooper had put all the blame on Lilienthal, though AEC and its laboratories (Argonne), atom plants (Hanford) and proving grounds (Eniwetok) are governed by a full five-man commission, and not by Chairman Lilienthal alone. And of more than 500 formal decisions taken by the commission only five had not been unanimous, Lilienthal said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Accuser | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...repudiation of military control of the atom has been one of the most important principles behind the AEC. Congress there years ago stated this in its legislation setting up the Commission; Secretary of Defense Johnson this week stated in the strongest of terms that he neither wanted nor would brook military control. Hickenlooper would impose military security procedures on the AEC--procedures which, if applied now, would discourage many scientists from working on the atom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Public Servant | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

...items: a suicide attempt, a dream which shows the end of the world coming when everybody panics at seeing some dirty words mysteriously written in the sky, and another dream in which Jesus Christ passes along the Wylie doctrine to the men in the plane about to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima...

Author: By John R. W. small, | Title: Wylie Puts Good Ideas Into Cheap Novel--'Opus 21' | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

...Nagasaki's Urakami baseball field, packed with thousands, the Emperor said a few words: "I do not know how to offer sympathy to Nagasaki, which had to suffer the atom bomb. We should work with all our might to make a peaceful Japan which will be the cornerstone of world peace and culture." As the Emperor finished, a man stepped in front of the crowd. "Tenno Heika banzai-Long live His Majesty, the Emperor!" he yelled. "Banzai!" echoed the crowd in a booming roar. "Banzai!" the masses outside took up the cheer. "Banzai!" they cried, shaking their paper flags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Broom | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

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