Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apparently the four universities chose to heed the Gazette's sage advice, for on September 26, 1901, in the Berkeley Oval in New York, the Harvard-Yale forces evened the score with their British rivals, winning 6 to 3 before a crowd estimated...
...pianist at night (at $84 a week). Soon Robin was taking Margaretha to dinner; once, dressed as Little Jack Horner, he took Margaretha (dressed as Little Red Riding Hood) to a ball sponsored by Princess Margaret. When Robin moved over to the cocktail bar at the posh Berkeley Hotel, Margaretha came and listened until he finished his 7-to-9-o'clock stint. Early this year he wrote her mother Princess Sibylla, asking for Margaretha's hand. Margaretha abruptly returned to her palace in Sweden...
Called Hilac (heavy ion linear accelerator), the Berkeley machine is 112 ft. long and about 10 ft. in diameter. Instead of hurling protons, deuterons and other light bits of atomic chaff, it uses as its projectiles such comparatively heavy elements as nitrogen (atomic weight 14) and neon (atomic weight 20), which have effects that are different from those of smaller projectiles...
...Berkeley's Hilac will be used chiefly for transmuting elements, especially for attempting to create new elements heavier than mendelevium (element 101). Another use: simulating the damage that may be done by heavy cosmic-ray particles to the living cells of space travelers above the sheltering atmosphere...
...possible dangers of being vaccinated against polio, and the opposite dangers of not being vaccinated, both became legal issues last week. ¶ Palmer Lee Martin, 41, filed a $300,000 damage suit in Atlanta against the Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif, and their Atlanta distributors, charging that he caught poliomyelitis from his son, who developed the disease a week following inoculation with vaccine that contained live virus (before improved testing methods were adopted by manufacturers). The child's symptoms were mild and he made a good recovery, but the father's case was severe. Martin's suit...