Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paid his respects to the memory of Gandhi (by sitting patiently through a 65-minute service at which Novelist Pearl Buck contrasted Gandhi's principle of non-violence with that of the "stupid men" who created the atom bomb) and to the memory of Lincoln (by driving to the Lincoln Memorial, watching two aides place a wreath at the foot of the Emancipator's statue...
...massive and majestic beard set him apart from other 20th Century heroes. The black-rimmed eyeglass, which he carries on a thin ribbon around his neck, is a gentle anachronism. Above all, his dates seem wrong. For it was at the height of the Victorian era, when the atom appeared almost as indestructible as Britain's dominion of the waves, that Karl Heinrich Marx died...
Career Conference spotlights will swing to the field of radio tonight when Adolph J. Schneider, who handled the Bikini atom bomb tests for National Broadcasting Company, heads a list of four speakers at 7:45 o'clock in Kirkland House...
After these two, there are a few capable, but not spectacular runners: Dave Hamblett, Al Ruby, and Jim Wheeler in the middle distances: Bill "Atom" Baker in the mile; two-milers Huna Rosenfeld and Jack Cogan; and sprinter Harvey Thayer. But nobody, not even Gurley, comes close to being another Lightbody...
Said he: "The principal and perhaps the only solid hope for preventing the use of atomic energy for destruction on a scale that has not yet been disclosed is for peoples everywhere to come to understand . . . this new critter, the atom, and what it holds for evil and for good . . . and to understand thereby the opportunities that lie before...