Word: beta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hand was graduated summa cum laude in philosophy from the College. He worked on the Advocate and gave the Phi Beta Kappa address at his Commencement...
...page 3 I am referred to as "a Harvard Phi Beta Kappa." I want to be on record that not only was I not a Phi Beta But that I have never at any time ever said to anyone that...
Moody went to work for the News (whose owner, William E. Scripps, is his uncle) soon after graduating from Brown University in 1922 with an A.B. degree in economics and a Phi Beta Kappa key. He moved up quickly, went to Washington in 1933 as No. 2 man in the News bureau. A nervously energetic man, who dresses smoothly and looks younger than his age, Moody is regarded as the probable successor to 66-year-old Editor W. S. Gilmore. Moody is a man who could do a lot to talk up Soapy's own Washington ambition, which...
...little by little, larger nuclei were formed, such as lithium, boron and carbon. Most of the nuclei grew by capturing more neutrons. When they captured too many, they became unstable. Then some of the neutrons inside them turned into protons and electrons. The electrons shot off as high-energy beta particles...
...More Neutrons. This process of "beta-decay" made the nuclei more stable -able to capture more neutrons. Bigger & bigger they grew, until all the elements in the universe had been formed. Then this growing process stopped; there were no more free neutrons, and the gas had become too cool to support nuclear reactions. Drs. Alpher & Herman believe that all the elements were formed in less than an hour after the great event...