Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even more oddly, some large nuclei (e.g., uranium) weigh more than two-middle-sized nuclei containing between them an equal number of nucleons. It is as if a bushel basket of apples lost weight when the apples were put into two baskets...
Uranium fission works by dividing large "bushel basket" nuclei. When a uranium nucleus splits in two, forming two smaller nuclei such as krypton and barium, the weight of all fragments added together is less than that of the original uranium. The weight-loss turns into free energy...
...bustled in & out of the clinic with every appearance of a proud parent. Then, back on location outside Rome for his new film on the life of St. Francis of Assisi, friendly local peasants presented the director with their traditional gift to the father of a newborn son: a basket of ricotta, a cheese made from ewe's milk and eaten on coarse black bread in the open air. Munching happily, Rossellini told a newsman: "I am the father...
High-scoring Crimson forward John Rockwell, who played the entire game tacked Cornell's Paul Gerwin all over the court in the first half, sinking six baskets in a series of behind-the-basket layups. Gerry Murphy also turned in a fine offensive game, dropping four set get shots ever the heads of several six-foot defenders...
...average of a little better than 13 points per game in the varsity basket ball team's ten remaining contests will enable forward John Rockwell to set a second all-time Harvard scoring record...