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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poor Bombs Are Easy. The trick is to bring them together quickly enough. If they approach one another slowly, they begin to react before they are fully in contact. The heat developed drives them apart prematurely, and the reaction stops. In the bomb described in the Smyth Report, the masses were driven together, probably in millionths of a second, by some such "low-order explosive" as TNT. Even if the Russians did not do as well as U.S. scientists, their less efficient bomb would still produce an "atomic explosion...
...author's endless wit and invention. Part Two, completed ten years later, shows Cervantes as absolute master of his matter, his manner and his man. Don Quixote makes a manifesto out of his guiding conviction: "Leave it to God, and everything will come out all right." People begin to take him half seriously, but misadventures come thick & fast. "I perceive now that one must actually touch with his hands what appears to the eye if he is to avoid being deceived," the knight mournfully admits. Yet hand and eye are not enough. When an enchanter turns a castle into...
Competition periods, which begin tonight, are regarded as training courses for the various boards. No previous experience is required...
Competitions for the CRIMSON'S news, business, and photographic boards begin tonight at 7:30 p.m. All sophomores and juniors interested in joining the newspaper's staff will be welcomed at 14. Plympton Street...
Assorted student talent will begin performing at 2 p.m. today in Phillips Brooks House in the first of a two day series of auditions to win spots on the roster of the Entertainment Bureau...