Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife and her new husband fog up. And her last-minute attempt to knit the son's tragedy to the world situation is a piece of synthetic, Freudian chop-logic as far-fetched as saying that a tug on an umbilical cord will ultimately release an atom bomb...
...noise around the Physics Department is always the atom-smasher. Research Fellow Lee L. Davenport has already assembled most of his cyclotron, and is now tinkering around with the small parts...
...matter how much he wriggled, the Internal Revenue Bureau would grab his wrist, yank him off balance, hiss for quiet, and take his jelly beans away from him. If he tried to hide them, he ran a good chance of having his marbles, jackknife, ocarina and super-magnifying atom ring confiscated, and his pants warmed with a shingle...
Culture, as he defines it, is being destroyed not by the atom bomb but by the fact that religious faith is declining more rapidly than ever before, that government planning and nursery schools are smashing the family group, that social barriers are being hurled down everywhere, and the last islands of regional diversity corrupted by mass communications and the passion for mass education...
...thing all meteorologists are agreed about: in spite of a widely held popular notion, man's tinkering with atomic energy has nothing to do with the funny weather. The energy released by atom bombs is vanishingly small compared to the forces of weather. "To counteract the energy maintaining a first-class hurricane," says Harry Wexler, the bureau's chief of Special Scientific Services, "you would have to explode 20 atom bombs per second...