Word: auger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saturday morning at 7:15 o'clock Gardner's fiancee, Polly Auger, trundled her hoop across the Wellesley College finish line in a history-making tie for first place...
Five sleek Crimson shells did business as usual with M. I. T. last Saturday. But the five victories that were Harvard's were won from a dangerously powerful M. I. T., and the closeness of some of the races, especially the Varsity finale, auger a rough time in Philadelphia next week for the oarsmen...
Last week Dr. Pierre Auger, who discovered these showers at his Paris laboratory in 1938, gave a new theory of their origin to the American Physical Society, meeting at the University of Chicago. They do not come from outer space as electrons: that would require a million billion electron volts. More probably the original missile from the remote regions of the universe is a proton, a bare hydrogen nucleus moving at terrific velocity with energy of 200 million electron volts. When it strikes the earth's atmosphere it breaks up either by explosion or collision and, like an earthbound...