Word: beta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combines in the body. Researcher Gofman and his colleagues examined the combinations in which cholesterol circulates. It enters the bloodstream combined with proteins of different kinds. Cholesterol molecules in the combinations known as alpha-lipoproteins are generally of high density and seem relatively little involved in disease; the beta-lipoproteins contain the fat and flabby cholesterol molecule that is clearly implicated in atherosclerosis...
...field artillery, he worked as a forward observer with the infantry after he was commissioned on the battlefield during the Battle of the Bulge. After three years in the Army, he studied history at the University of Kentucky and finished up at Yale, where he made Phi Beta Kappa and was president of the Political Union. He was one of ten undergraduates to win overseas scholarships for study at Oxford. He joined us six years...
...Frank Stanton (Ph.D. in Psychology, Ohio State '35) cries: "Not even the sky is the limit. The potentials of television are as big as the potentials of American society-and I do not feel like setting a limit on that." In Rockefeller Center, NBC President Pat Weaver (Phi Beta Kappa, Dartmouth '30) grows ever more expansive: "Television is as big as all outdoors. The whole country can visit the Vatican and La Scala at once. Our horizons are boundless...
...elements were formed when neutrons from the explosion hit atoms of uranium 238 and were captured by its nucleus. In the case of Element 99, the U-238 captured 15 neutrons and emitted seven beta particles (electrons). Each beta particle emitted meant that a captured neutron had changed into a proton. So the U-238, which had 92 protons and 146 neutrons, turned into Element 99 with 99 protons and 154 neutrons. To form Element 100 (100 protons and 155 neutrons), the U-238 captured 17 neutrons and lost eight beta particles. The scientists suggested that Element 99 be named...
...boss was Betty Brown, a trim, pretty redhead and a Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Southern California. For Wouk, it was a clear case of love at second sight. Betty was a Protestant, but not a practicing one. She thinks now that part of Herman's appeal for her was that he made her see "that one didn't have to be a stupe to be religious." When Herman went back to sea, Betty Brown began studying Judaism, and a year later, on her 25th birthday, became a Jewish convert. Betty's Hebrew name...